DokuWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. WackoWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.9.11
6.1.25
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
None
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
None
No
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki
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 MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
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
1
English
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Links DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
actions (PHP)
Optional
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Output DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
No
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Extras DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
No
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
`monospaced`
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--(strikethrough)--
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
N/A
indented text
one
two
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
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}
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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