DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. wxWikiServer

General Features DokuWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
1.5.11c
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (20 days ago)
2005-12-02 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (20 days ago)
2006-02-07 (18 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Ryan Norton
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
C++
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
NA
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End users/Desktop
System Requirements DokuWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
built-in
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
None
Datastorage DokuWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
None
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
unknown
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
32 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features DokuWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
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
Email notification
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links DokuWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features DokuWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
no
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Statistics DokuWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output DokuWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
No
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
''' bold text '''
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
'' italic text ''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
start line with blank space.
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
Aligning Text
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
] centred text
Text Indentation
N/A
one
two
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* one
* two
* two.1
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
Definition Lists
Plugin
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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