Wicked vs. WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features Wicked WackoWiki DokuWiki
Version
2.0.8
6.2.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
Author
The Horde Project
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements Wicked WackoWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Any
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Text_Wiki from PEAR
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Wicked WackoWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
None
MariaDB
None
Security/Anti-Spam Wicked WackoWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
25 different backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Development/Support Wicked WackoWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
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54 ⭐
4526 ⭐
Common Features Wicked WackoWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wicked WackoWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
No
Flat
Plugin
Categories
No
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Links Wicked WackoWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Wicked WackoWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
No
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
No
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
No
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Usability Wicked WackoWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wicked WackoWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output Wicked WackoWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
No
Patch
Plugin
Media and Files Wicked WackoWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Wicked WackoWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Optional
No
Blogs
No
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Optional
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Patch
No
Syntax Examples Wicked WackoWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
@@+++ underline @@
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
@@--- strikethrough @@
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Plugin
Text Indentation
one
two
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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