wxWikiServer vs. WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. WikiASP

General Features wxWikiServer WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
Version
1.5.11c
6.2.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
1.6.2
Last Release Date
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2005-10-13 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-07 (19 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2006-08-26 (19 years ago)
Author
Ryan Norton
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Elrey Ronald V.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
BSD
GPL 2
GPL
FREE
Programming Language
C++
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
ASP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
NA
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
End users/Desktop
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
System Requirements wxWikiServer WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
Operating System
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
built-in
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
IIS
Other Requirements
None
mod_rewrite (optional)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
Datastorage wxWikiServer WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
Unknown
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Unknown
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Other
MariaDB
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MS Access DB
Security/Anti-Spam wxWikiServer WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
unknown
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Development/Support wxWikiServer WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
54 ⭐
4526 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features wxWikiServer WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features wxWikiServer WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Flat
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links wxWikiServer WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features wxWikiServer WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Tables
simple
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Scripting
no
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability wxWikiServer WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics wxWikiServer WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Output wxWikiServer WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
XML export
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files wxWikiServer WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras wxWikiServer WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Optional
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Patch
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples wxWikiServer WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
Internal Link
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord
External Link
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com]
Headlines
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
== 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
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
Bold Format
''' bold text '''
**bold**
**bold**
*bold*
'''BoldFormat'''

{bold}BoldFormat{/b}
Italics Format
'' italic text ''
//italics//
//italics//
_italic_
''The quotation''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
start line with blank space.
##monospace##
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<space char here>This is mono
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
_This is Strike Through_
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
image:http://wite/image/icon.jpg

image:local:icon.jpg
Aligning Text
] centred text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
one
two
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
>Indent 1
>>Indent2
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
* two.1
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Test
* Bullets
Numbered Lists
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Test Numeer
1. Test Two

Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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