DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Instiki

General Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
0.30.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
Ruby's
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Ruby on Rails
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
general, education
System Requirements DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Datastorage DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
None
MariaDB
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Unknown
Development/Support DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
32 ⭐
478 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
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
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
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Flat
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
None
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[another site](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 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
_italic_, *italic*
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
Text Indentation
N/A
one
two
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
{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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