DokuWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. WackoWiki

General Features DokuWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.3.13
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Alex Schroeder
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Any
family people, hackers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements DokuWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
Writable data directory
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
None
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
None (use your web server instead)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
67 ⭐
32 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
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
Restricted by Age
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 PhpWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Links DokuWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins, templates, PHP
Perl
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output DokuWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
No
Patch
Media and Files DokuWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras DokuWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
No
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Patch
Syntax Examples DokuWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
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
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
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 ==
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>striked through</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
vvsubscriptvv
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
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
Aligning Text
Plugin
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

no example known
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
N/A
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
or
- list
* one
** two
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# list
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

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


Definition Lists
Plugin
Term:<def>
def
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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