Wikidot vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 day ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 day ago)
Author
Michal Frackowiak
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPLv3
GPL 2
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki
Storage Quota
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
no limit
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
max uploaded file size limit
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
by Terms Of Service
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Unknown
Yes
No
MySQL
Unknown
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Unknown
No
No
SQLite
Unknown
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
No
Other
None
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
Development/Support Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki
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 Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
English, Polish
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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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
No
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
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Media and Files Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Patch
Syntax Examples Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
+++ headline level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold text**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic text//
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined text__
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospaced text}}
''monospace''
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough text--
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[[image src="..."]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
= Centered line
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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


Definition Lists
: item : description
Plugin
{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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