WiGit vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. SubWiki

General Features WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki SubWiki
Version
0.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.2.0
0.1-dev
Last Release Date
2008-07-21 (17 years ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
no official
Last Update here
2009-07-09 (16 years ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2006-02-14 (19 years ago)
Author
Remko Tronçon
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Greg Stein
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
BSD
Academic Free License
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
other
Files
Database
RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Alpha
Intended Audience
Private users
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki SubWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
Git
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki SubWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Other
Git repositories
None
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki SubWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki SubWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4526 ⭐
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki SubWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki SubWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
0
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
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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
1
English
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
No
Plugin
Flat
No
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki SubWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki SubWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
None
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
none
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Custom styles
No
Plugin
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
None
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Usability WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki SubWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki SubWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki SubWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki SubWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki SubWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki SubWiki
Internal Link
[InternalLink]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
"External link":http://externallink.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
h1. Headline
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
Bold Format
*Bold*
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_Italics_
//italics//
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
+underlined+
__underlined__
__underline__
N/A
Monospace Format
@monospace@
''monospace''
##monospace##
{{monospaced}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
N/A
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
N/A
Subscript Format
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
N/A
Images
!image.jpg!
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
Aligning Text
>Right-aligned
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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


# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
N/A
Horizontal Rule
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