DokuWiki vs. Hatta vs. Oddmuse vs. ProWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features DokuWiki Hatta Oddmuse ProWiki WackoWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.6.6
2.3.13
2.0.045
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2015-08-28 (8 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2006-10-13 (17 years ago)
2024-04-11 (21 days ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2015-08-29 (8 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2009-11-28 (14 years ago)
2024-04-11 (21 days ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Radomir Dopieralski
Alex Schroeder
Helmut Leitner
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL v2
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Perl
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
family people, hackers
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements DokuWiki Hatta Oddmuse ProWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Anything supported by Perl
Unix / Linux
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Mercurial
Writable data directory
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki Hatta Oddmuse ProWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Other
None
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Hatta Oddmuse ProWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
n/a
None (use your web server instead)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Hatta Oddmuse ProWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
67 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki Hatta Oddmuse ProWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Hatta Oddmuse ProWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
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
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
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
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
No
Discussion Pages
No
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Links DokuWiki Hatta Oddmuse ProWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Hatta Oddmuse ProWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
None
Plugin
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
Perl
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Usability DokuWiki Hatta Oddmuse ProWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki Hatta Oddmuse ProWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Output DokuWiki Hatta Oddmuse ProWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files DokuWiki Hatta Oddmuse ProWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras DokuWiki Hatta Oddmuse ProWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
No
No
No
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Hatta Oddmuse ProWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
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
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
//italic//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
n/a
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{{verbatim}}}
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
n/a
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
[[strike]strikethrough text]
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>text</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>text</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
n/a
no example known
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
N/A
n/a
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
: indented line
:: indented line
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
** sublist
* one
** two
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
n/a
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

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


Definition Lists
Plugin
n/a
Depending on plugins:
; 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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Depending on plugins:
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