DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PhpWiki vs. Hatta

General Features DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Hatta
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
1.9.11
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (22 days ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2015-08-28 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (22 days ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2015-08-29 (8 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
GPL
GPL v2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
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
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Any
System Requirements DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Hatta
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
None
various opt. helpers
Mercurial
Datastorage DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Hatta
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Other
None
MariaDB
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
n/a
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki 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
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
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
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
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Links DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Hatta
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Hatta
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Some
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Tables
simple
simple
complex
simple + complex
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
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
plugins, see comment ---------------->
plugins, templates, PHP
JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Hatta
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki 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
Yes
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Output DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Plugin
Patch
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Hatta
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
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
No
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Hatta
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Chat
No
Patch
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Hatta
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
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 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
n/a
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>striked through</strike>
n/a
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
n/a
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
n/a
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[ 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
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

n/a
Text Indentation
N/A
one
two
indented text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* list
** sublist
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
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
n/a
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
n/a
Horizontal Rule
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