DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. WackoWiki

General Features DokuWiki TWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.13
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Alex Schroeder
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
family people, hackers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements DokuWiki TWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Anything supported by Perl
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Anything supporting CGI scripts
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki TWiki Oddmuse 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
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki TWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki TWiki Oddmuse 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
67 ⭐
32 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki TWiki 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 TWiki 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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
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
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links DokuWiki TWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki TWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
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
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Perl
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki TWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki TWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Output DokuWiki TWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
No
Patch
Media and Files DokuWiki TWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras DokuWiki TWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Patch
Syntax Examples DokuWiki TWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
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 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
vvsubscriptvv
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
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


Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
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
----
---
Depending on plugins:
----
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