DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. GWiki

General Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
2.3.13
2.4.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Alex Schroeder
Roger Rene Kommer
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
Apache License, Version 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
family people, hackers
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
System Requirements DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Anything supported by Perl
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Anything supporting CGI scripts
All Java Servlet Container, included
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Writable data directory
Java 1.8+
Datastorage DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
None
MariaDB
No
Google Datastore
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Internal and external with adapter
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
32 ⭐
67 ⭐
4 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
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 WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
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
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
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
Perl
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Statistics DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Media and Files DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Forums
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
Patch
No
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[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]]
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 ======
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*Bold Format*
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_Italic format_
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
+Unterlined+
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{Monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
-StrikeThrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^Superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
~Subscript~
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((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
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
no example known
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Text Indentation
N/A
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
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* one
** two
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- 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
{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
----
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Depending on plugins:
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