DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. MoasdaWiki

General Features DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse MoasdaWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.3.13
3.7.1
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (12 days ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2023-12-31 (3 months ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (12 days ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2024-01-01 (3 months ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Alex Schroeder
Herbert Reiter
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
GPL
AGPL-3.0-only
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Any
family people, hackers
personal usage, small teams
System Requirements DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse MoasdaWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Any platform with Java VM 17+
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
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Built-in
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
various opt. helpers
Writable data directory
Java VM 17+
Datastorage DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse MoasdaWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
No
Other
None
MariaDB
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse MoasdaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
None (use your web server instead)
N/A
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse MoasdaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
32 ⭐
N/A
67 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse MoasdaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
None
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse MoasdaWiki
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
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
Yes
Plugin
No
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Links DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse MoasdaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse MoasdaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Patch
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
plugins, templates, PHP
Perl
JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse MoasdaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse MoasdaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse MoasdaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
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
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
No
No
Media and Files DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse MoasdaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Filenames only
No
Extras DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse MoasdaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Forums
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Chat
No
Patch
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse MoasdaWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
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
[[a link]]
[[a link | with title]]
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://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[[http://example.org]]
[[http://example.org | with title]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= Section
== Subsection
=== Sub-subsection
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
##italic##
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
@@monospace font@@
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
<strike>striked through</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
~~striked through~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>above</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
{{html}}<sup>superscript</sup>{{/html}}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>below</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
{{html}}<sub>subscript</sub>{{/html}}
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
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
{{image:wiki.png}}
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>

no example known
{{center}}centered text
Text Indentation
N/A
one
two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Non-indented text

Single indented text

Double indented text
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* list
or
- list
* one
** two
* 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
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# 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
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
{{html}}
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
{{/html}}
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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