| General Features | DokuWiki | Instiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
|
0.30.0
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2.3.13
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6.1.25
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0.5.0
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| Last Release Date |
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
|
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
|
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
|
2024-04-11 (18 days ago)
|
2007-04-11 (17 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
|
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
|
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
|
2024-04-11 (18 days ago)
|
2009-02-09 (15 years ago)
|
| Author |
Andreas Gohr
|
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
|
Alex Schroeder
|
WackoWiki Team
|
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL 2
|
Ruby's
|
GPL
|
BSD
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Ruby on Rails
|
Perl
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Database
|
Files
|
Database
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
free
|
0
|
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
personal, small to medium companies
|
general, education
|
family people, hackers
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
| System Requirements | DokuWiki | Instiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
| Operating System |
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
|
| Webserver |
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 |
Ruby 2.0-2.6
|
Writable data directory
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
||
| Datastorage | DokuWiki | Instiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
None
|
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
|
No
|
MariaDB
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | DokuWiki | Instiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
None (use your web server instead)
|
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
||
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | DokuWiki | Instiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Code Repository | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel | |||||
| Stars on GitHub |
3582 ⭐
|
478 ⭐
|
67 ⭐
|
32 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | DokuWiki | Instiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
| Preview |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Age
|
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Age
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | DokuWiki | Instiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| 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 |
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 |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
No
|
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Links | DokuWiki | Instiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | DokuWiki | Instiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
All
|
Plugin
|
All
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Custom styles |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
None
|
Perl
|
actions (PHP)
|
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Usability | DokuWiki | Instiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | DokuWiki | Instiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
| 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
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Output | DokuWiki | Instiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | DokuWiki | Instiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
No
|
| Extras | DokuWiki | Instiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | 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}} |
, [[image.jpg|alt text:pic]] |
http://example.com/pic.jpg Depending on plugins: [[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants  |
((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 |
---- |
*** |
Depending on plugins: ---- |
---- |
---- |
| remove DokuWiki | remove Instiki | remove Oddmuse | remove WackoWiki | remove WikiNi |