DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. GWiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki PukiWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.4.0
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (22 days ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (22 days ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Roger Rene Kommer
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Any
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki PukiWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
All Java Servlet Container, included
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
various opt. helpers
Java 1.8+
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki PukiWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
None
MariaDB
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Google Datastore
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal and external with adapter
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
32 ⭐
N/A
4 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
2
German, English
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
No
Links DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
plugins, templates, PHP
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Yes
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki PukiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Optional
Chat
No
Patch
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki PukiWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://example.com]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*Bold Format*
''bold''
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_Italic format_
'''italic'''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
+Unterlined+
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{Monospace}}
N/A
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
<strike>striked through</strike>
-StrikeThrough-
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>above</sup>
^Superscript^
N/A
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>below</sub>
~Subscript~
N/A
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[ 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
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
N/A
one
two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* list
or
- list
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
- 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


# list
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ 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:<def>
def
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
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