| General Features | BookStack | Wiki.js | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
v21.12.1
|
2.5.299
|
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
|
1.32.2
|
6.1.25
|
3.2
|
| Last Release Date |
2022-01-05 (2 years ago)
|
2023-06-02 (10 months ago)
|
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
|
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
|
2024-04-11 (8 days ago)
|
2021-03-15 (3 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2022-01-08 (2 years ago)
|
2023-07-30 (8 months ago)
|
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
|
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
|
2024-04-11 (8 days ago)
|
2021-03-17 (3 years ago)
|
| Author |
Dan Brown
|
Nicolas Giard
|
Andreas Gohr
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
WackoWiki Team
|
Hallo Welt! GmbH
|
| URL | ||||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
MIT
|
AGPL-v3
|
GPL 2
|
GPL
|
BSD
|
GPLv3
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Javascript
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database, Files, other, RCS
|
Files
|
Database
|
Database
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
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
|
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
| System Requirements | BookStack | Wiki.js | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
|
All
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
OS Independent
|
Linux, Windows
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| 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
|
Apache 2+ / IIS 8+
|
| Other Requirements |
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
|
Node.js
|
none
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
Apache Tomcat 8, ElasticSearch 6+, Java 8+, NodeJS 6+
|
|
| Datastorage | BookStack | Wiki.js | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
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 | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
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
|
Yes
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | BookStack | Wiki.js | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||||
| Mailing List | ||||||
| Support Forum | ||||||
| Chat Channel | ||||||
| Stars on GitHub |
10374 ⭐
|
19117 ⭐
|
3582 ⭐
|
N/A
|
32 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | BookStack | Wiki.js | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Restricted by Number
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | BookStack | Wiki.js | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| 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 |
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 |
| Email notification |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Detection
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Links | BookStack | Wiki.js | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | BookStack | Wiki.js | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
All
|
Optional
|
Some
|
All
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
None
|
JS, CSS
|
Optional, PHP
|
Optional
|
actions (PHP)
|
Java Script
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | BookStack | Wiki.js | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | BookStack | Wiki.js | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Output | BookStack | Wiki.js | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
| Media and Files | BookStack | Wiki.js | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
Keywords
|
Contents
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | BookStack | Wiki.js | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Chat |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Examples | BookStack | Wiki.js | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| 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 |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| 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]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
| 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 ====== |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
|
**Bold Text** |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
|
*Italic Text* |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
|
<u>Underline Text</u> |
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
|
`Monospace Code` |
''monospace'' |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
##monospace## |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
~~Strikethrough Text~~ |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
--strikethrough-- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
|
^Superscript Text^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
~Subscript Text~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
vvsubscriptvv |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
|
 |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
|
|
Plugin |
<center>Centered</center> |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
|
|
N/A |
: indented line |
one two |
: indented line |
| 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 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| 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 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
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Plugin |
; term : definition |
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html} |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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