BlueSpice MediaWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Wiki.js vs. DokuWiki

General Features BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
Version
3.2
1.32.2
6.1.25
2.5.299
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2021-03-15 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (19 days ago)
2023-06-02 (10 months ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-03-17 (3 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (19 days ago)
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Hallo Welt! GmbH
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Nicolas Giard
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
GPL
BSD
AGPL-v3
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Javascript
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database, Files, other, RCS
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
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Everyone
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
All
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache 2+ / IIS 8+
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
All
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Apache Tomcat 8, ElasticSearch 6+, Java 8+, NodeJS 6+
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Node.js
Datastorage BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Optional
No
Other
No
MariaDB
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
None
Security/Anti-Spam BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Optional
Optional
Development/Support BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js 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
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Common Features BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 WackoWiki Wiki.js 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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, 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
No
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Links BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Features BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
No
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
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Java Script
Optional
actions (PHP)
JS, CSS
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Usability BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Statistics BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Output BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Patch
Yes
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
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Optional
Unknown
Patch
No
Plugin
Media and Files BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Keywords
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Optional
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
No
No
Syntax Examples BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
**Bold Text**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
*Italic Text*
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>Underline Text</u>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
`Monospace Code`
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
~~Strikethrough Text~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^Superscript Text^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
~Subscript Text~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Plugin
Text Indentation
: indented line
: indented line
one
two
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
; 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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