DokuWiki vs. Wiki.js vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.5.299
1.32.2
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Nicolas Giard
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
AGPL-v3
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Javascript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, other, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Everyone
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
All
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
All
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Node.js
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Optional
No
No
Other
None
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
19117 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
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 Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Links DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JS, CSS
Optional
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Output DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
No
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Keywords
Contents
Extras DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
**Bold Text**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
*Italic Text*
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>Underline Text</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
`Monospace Code`
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
~~Strikethrough Text~~
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript Text^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript Text~
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
{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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