DokuWiki vs. ProWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. WackoWiki vs. Hatta

General Features DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki Hatta
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.0.045
1.9.11
6.1.25
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2006-10-13 (17 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (23 days ago)
2015-08-28 (8 years 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 (23 days ago)
2015-08-29 (8 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Helmut Leitner
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
WackoWiki Team
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
BSD
GPL v2
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Python
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
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 Hatta
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix / Linux
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
OS Independent
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
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
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
none
None
mod_rewrite (optional)
Mercurial
Datastorage DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki Hatta
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Other
None
No
MariaDB
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
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
n/a
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki Hatta
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
No
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
No
Discussion Pages
Flat
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Links DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki Hatta
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki Hatta
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Some
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
actions (PHP)
JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki Hatta
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Output DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
No
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki Hatta
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki Hatta
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
Optional
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki Hatta
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
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
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]]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
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 ======
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
//italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
n/a
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
##monospace##
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
[[strike]strikethrough text]
--(strikethrough)--
--strikethrough--
n/a
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>text</sup>
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
n/a
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>text</sub>
,,subscript,,
vvsubscriptvv
n/a
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
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
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%%
n/a
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
:: indented line
indented text
one
two
n/a
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
* list
** sublist
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


n/a
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}
n/a
Horizontal Rule
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