DokuWiki vs. Foswiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. WackoWiki

General Features DokuWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.1.8
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
2023-11-15 (6 months ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
2024-04-01 (1 month ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Foswiki Community
Tiki Software Community Association
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
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
System Requirements DokuWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Works on standard shared hosting
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
None
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
None
caching of content into database using plugins
MariaDB
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
97 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
35
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
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links DokuWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output DokuWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Media and Files DokuWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras DokuWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
No
No
Yes
Patch
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
((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
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
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
-= Titlebar =-
! 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**
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
===underline===
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
-+monospace+-
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strike--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
vvsubscriptvv
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
::centered text::
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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


Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
;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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