DokuWiki vs. Instiki vs. WackoWiki vs. WikiNi

General Features DokuWiki Instiki WackoWiki WikiNi
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.30.0
6.1.25
0.5.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2007-04-11 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2009-02-09 (15 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Ruby's
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Ruby on Rails
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
general, education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements DokuWiki Instiki WackoWiki WikiNi
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
OS Independent
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki Instiki WackoWiki WikiNi
Text Files
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Plugin
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
None
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Instiki WackoWiki WikiNi
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Optional
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Instiki WackoWiki WikiNi
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
478 ⭐
32 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Instiki WackoWiki WikiNi
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Instiki WackoWiki WikiNi
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
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
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
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
No
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Links DokuWiki Instiki WackoWiki WikiNi
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features DokuWiki Instiki WackoWiki WikiNi
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
None
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Usability DokuWiki Instiki WackoWiki WikiNi
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki Instiki WackoWiki WikiNi
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Output DokuWiki Instiki WackoWiki WikiNi
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki Instiki WackoWiki WikiNi
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki Instiki WackoWiki WikiNi
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
No
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Instiki 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]]
[[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)
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######
== 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**
** **
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_, *italic*
//italics//
// //
Underline Format
__underlined__
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
__underline__
__ __
Monospace Format
''monospace''
`monospace`
##monospace##
## ##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
--strikethrough--
@@ @@
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
((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'}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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

> blockquote
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
**One-two
*two
*three
-
-
-
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1)
1)
1)
Definition Lists
Plugin
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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