DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. GWiki

General Features DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
6.1.25
2.3.13
2.4.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (27 days ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (27 days ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
WackoWiki Team
Alex Schroeder
Roger Rene Kommer
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
GPL
Apache License, Version 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
free
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
family people, hackers
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
System Requirements DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
OS Independent
Anything supported by Perl
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Anything supporting CGI scripts
All Java Servlet Container, included
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Writable data directory
Java 1.8+
Datastorage DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Other
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
No
Google Datastore
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Internal and external with adapter
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
# 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
32 ⭐
67 ⭐
4 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
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
Restricted by Age
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 TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, 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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
German, English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
Perl
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Statistics DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Output DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
No
No
Media and Files DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Patch
No
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[http://example.com]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*Bold Format*
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_Italic format_
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
+Unterlined+
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{Monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
-StrikeThrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^Superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
~Subscript~
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
Aligning Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
no example known
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
one
two
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* one
** two
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
Depending on plugins:
----
----
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