DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
1.32.2
6.1.25
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (4 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (13 days ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (3 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (13 days ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL2+
GPL
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
All
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
none
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
None
Datastorage DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, 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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional
actions (PHP)
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Output DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
No
Media and Files DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Patch
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-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'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
: indented line
one
two
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
: term : definition
; 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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