Wiki CSharp .NET vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Zim vs. WackoWiki

General Features Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki
Version
0.4.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
0.56
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2009-12-31 (16 years ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2012-04-02 (13 years ago)
2026-03-03 (13 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-07 (15 years ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
2026-03-03 (13 days ago)
Author
Pier-Luc Duchaine
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Jaap Karssenberg
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL V3
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
PHP
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, small and big team
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Private users, small teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki
Operating System
Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OSX
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
None
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
none
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
None
No
Text Files with index in SQLite
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
File permissions
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4580 ⭐
N/A
N/A
56 ⭐
Common Features Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
No
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Links Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
None
All
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Optional
None
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Output Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki
Internal Link
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
=== Heading ===
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
*Bold*
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
=Italic=
//italics//
''italic''
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
_Underline_
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
[|Monospace formate|]
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
``monospace``
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
-Strike-
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
~~strike~~
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^{sup}
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
_{sub}
,,subscript,,
Images
[$Image file$]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{./image.png}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
not implemented
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
indent with tabs
one
two
Bulleted Lists
-list1
--list2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
#list1
##list2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
not implemented
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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not implemented
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