DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Instiki vs. PhpWiki vs. WikiNi

General Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki WikiNi
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
0.30.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
0.5.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (27 days ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2007-04-11 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (27 days ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2009-02-09 (15 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
Ruby's
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Ruby on Rails
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
general, education
Any
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki WikiNi
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
Root Access
No
No
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)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Ruby 2.0-2.6
various opt. helpers
Datastorage DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki WikiNi
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
No
Other
None
MariaDB
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki WikiNi
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Unknown
No
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki WikiNi
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
32 ⭐
478 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki WikiNi
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki WikiNi
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
1
French
Email notification
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Flat
No
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Patch
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Unknown
Links DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki WikiNi
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki WikiNi
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
None
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Usability DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki WikiNi
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki WikiNi
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
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Output DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki WikiNi
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
No
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki WikiNi
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
No
No
Extras DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki WikiNi
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Unknown
Chat
No
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki WikiNi
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]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
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)
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[[ ]]
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######
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
====== ====== level 1
===== ===== level 2
==== ==== level 3
=== === level 4
== == level 5

Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
** **
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
_italic_, *italic*
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
// //
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
<u>underlined</u>
__ __
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
`monospace`
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


## ##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
<strike>striked through</strike>
@@ @@
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</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]]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
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'}
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
N/A
one
two
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
[space] level 1
[space][space] level 2
[space][space][...] level X
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
-
-
-
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
# list
1)
1)
1)
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
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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