Wikidot vs. WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features Wikidot WackoWiki DokuWiki
Version
6.2.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2025-12-14 (2 months ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
2026-02-27 (today)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
Author
Michal Frackowiak
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPLv3
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
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
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
Hosting Features Wikidot WackoWiki DokuWiki
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 WackoWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Wikidot WackoWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
Yes
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Unknown
No
No
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
No
Other
MariaDB
None
Security/Anti-Spam Wikidot WackoWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Optional
Development/Support Wikidot WackoWiki DokuWiki
# 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 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 Wikidot WackoWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
English, Polish
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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
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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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links Wikidot WackoWiki DokuWiki
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
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Wikidot WackoWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Patch
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Wikidot WackoWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wikidot WackoWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output Wikidot WackoWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Media and Files Wikidot WackoWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Wikidot WackoWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Optional
No
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
No
Syntax Examples Wikidot WackoWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
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__
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
{{monospaced text}}
##monospace##
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough text--
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[image src="..."]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
= Centered line
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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


- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
: item : description
{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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