Corendal Wiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Instiki vs. Oddmuse vs. WackoWiki vs. WikiNi

General Features Corendal Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
Version
3.0.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.30.0
2.3.13
6.1.24
0.5.0
Last Release Date
2010-04-22 (13 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2023-11-01 (4 months ago)
2007-04-11 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-23 (13 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2023-11-02 (4 months ago)
2009-02-09 (15 years ago)
Author
Thierry Danard
Andreas Gohr
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Alex Schroeder
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
Ruby's
GPL
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Ruby on Rails
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
0
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Corporate
personal, small to medium companies
general, education
family people, hackers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements Corendal Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
Operating System
Unix / Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Anything supported by Perl
OS Independent
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat, Oracle Application Server
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Anything supporting CGI scripts
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Java 5.0
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Writable data directory
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Corendal Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
No
No
Other
None
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Corendal Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory or Local Accounts
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Unknown
No
No
No
Development/Support Corendal Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
478 ⭐
67 ⭐
32 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Corendal Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Corendal Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
1
English
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
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, 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
1
French
Email notification
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Plugin
No
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links Corendal Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Corendal Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Plugin
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
None
Perl
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Usability Corendal Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Statistics Corendal Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Output Corendal Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Corendal Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras Corendal Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Corendal Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[another site](http://example.com)
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[ ]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
====== ====== level 1
===== ===== level 2
==== ==== level 3
=== === level 4
== == level 5

Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
** **
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_, *italic*
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
// //
Underline Format
__underlined__
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
__ __
Monospace Format
''monospace''
`monospace`
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
##monospace##
## ##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--strikethrough--
@@ @@
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
vvsubscriptvv
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
no example known
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
N/A
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
one
two
[space] level 1
[space][space] level 2
[space][space][...] level X
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
-
-
-
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1)
1)
1)
Definition Lists
Plugin
term
: definition
Depending on plugins:
; 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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Depending on plugins:
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