BookStack vs. Wiki.js vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features BookStack Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Version
v21.12.1
2.5.299
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
6.1.24
Last Release Date
2022-01-05 (2 years ago)
2023-06-02 (9 months ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2023-11-01 (4 months ago)
Last Update here
2022-01-08 (2 years ago)
2023-07-30 (7 months ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2023-11-02 (4 months ago)
Author
Dan Brown
Nicolas Giard
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
AGPL-v3
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Javascript
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, other, RCS
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small to mid-size groups and businesses
Everyone
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements BookStack Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
All
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
All
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
Node.js
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage BookStack Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Optional
No
No
No
Other
MariaDB
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
None
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam BookStack Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
No
No
Development/Support BookStack Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
10374 ⭐
19117 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
Common Features BookStack Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features BookStack Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, 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
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
Email notification
No
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links BookStack Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features BookStack Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
None
JS, CSS
Optional, PHP
Optional
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability BookStack Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics BookStack Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Output BookStack Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files BookStack Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Extras BookStack Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
No
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
No
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples BookStack Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**Bold Text**
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
*Italic Text*
//italics//
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>Underline Text</u>
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
`Monospace Code`
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
~~Strikethrough Text~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^Superscript Text^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~Subscript Text~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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


Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
{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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