Wikepage vs. ikiwiki vs. WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features Wikepage ikiwiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Version
2008.1
2.67
6.2.1
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2008-10-14 (17 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (30 days ago)
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-24 (17 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (30 days ago)
2026-03-25 (8 days ago)
Author
Jose Carlos Medeiros
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private users, small groups
Anyone
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements Wikepage ikiwiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Platform Independent
Any
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Server Independent
Any, or none
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
n/a
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Wikepage ikiwiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
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
Yes
No
No
Other
MariaDB
None
Security/Anti-Spam Wikepage ikiwiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Optional
Development/Support Wikepage ikiwiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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4593 ⭐
Common Features Wikepage ikiwiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wikepage ikiwiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
1
English
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
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Links Wikepage ikiwiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Wikepage ikiwiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Wikepage ikiwiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wikepage ikiwiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output Wikepage ikiwiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Media and Files Wikepage ikiwiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Wikepage ikiwiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Unknown
Optional
No
Blogs
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
No
Syntax Examples Wikepage ikiwiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
[Link_type]
[http://externallink.com]
[[internal]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[http://externallink.com/|click]
[http://externallink.com/|picture.gif]
[link text](http://example.org)
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
! Biggest
!! Smaller
!!! Smallest
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
== 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__
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''Italic''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
__Underline__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
With a space in front of the text
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
##monospace##
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
n/a
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
n/a
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
n/a
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[image.gif]
[http://externalimage.com/image.gif]
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
n/a
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Plugin
Text Indentation
n/a
one
two
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet1
* Bullet2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
n/a
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
---
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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