DokuWiki vs. ProWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. WackoWiki

General Features DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.0.045
1.9.11
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2006-10-13 (17 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-11-28 (14 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Helmut Leitner
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix / Linux
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
none
None
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
None
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
32 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin 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
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
1
English
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
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
No
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
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
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Links DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
No
Yes
Usability DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
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
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
No
Patch
Media and Files DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
Contents
Extras DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Forums
No
No
No
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Patch
Syntax Examples DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

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

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


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}
Horizontal Rule
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