BlueSpice MediaWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki
Version
3.2
1.32.2
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
6.1.25
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2021-03-15 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2024-04-11 (15 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-03-17 (3 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-01 (25 days ago)
2024-04-11 (15 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Hallo Welt! GmbH
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Tiki Software Community Association
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
GPL
LGPL
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache 2+ / IIS 8+
Any with PHP support
Works on standard shared hosting
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Apache Tomcat 8, ElasticSearch 6+, Java 8+, NodeJS 6+
none
None
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
No
Other
No
MariaDB
MariaDB
None
Security/Anti-Spam BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Yes
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Optional
Development/Support BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
30
Arabic, Bashkir, Breton, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Interlingua, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
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Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, 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
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Java Script
Optional
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Optional
Unknown
No
Patch
Plugin
Media and Files BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Optional
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Patch
No
Syntax Examples BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
-= Titlebar =-
! 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 ==
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
__bold__
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
===underline===
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
-+monospace+-
##monospace##
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strike--
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
<center>Centered</center>
::centered text::
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Plugin
Text Indentation
: indented line
: indented line
leading spaces, if activated.
one
two
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
; term : definition
;term:definition
{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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