DokuWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. WackoWiki vs. wxWikiServer vs. Corendal Wiki

General Features DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.13
6.1.25
1.5.11c
3.0.2
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (9 days ago)
2005-12-02 (18 years ago)
2010-04-22 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (9 days ago)
2006-02-07 (18 years ago)
2010-04-23 (13 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Alex Schroeder
WackoWiki Team
Ryan Norton
Thierry Danard
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
C++
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
NA
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
family people, hackers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End users/Desktop
Corporate
System Requirements DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
OS Independent
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Unix / Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
built-in
Apache Tomcat, Oracle Application Server
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
mod_rewrite (optional)
None
Java 5.0
Datastorage DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
No
Other
None
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
unknown
Active Directory or Local Accounts
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
67 ⭐
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
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
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
English
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Flat
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
All
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Perl
actions (PHP)
no
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Usability DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Statistics DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Output DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
No
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
No
No
Extras DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Presentations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Unknown
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
No
Chat
No
No
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
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]]
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
Bold Format
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
''' bold text '''
Italics Format
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
'' italic text ''
Underline Format
__underlined__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
##monospace##
start line with blank space.
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
vvsubscriptvv
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
Aligning Text
Plugin
no example known
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
one
two
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* one
* two
* two.1
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- 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 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
Definition Lists
Plugin
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
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Depending on plugins:
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