DokuWiki vs. WikiNi vs. Instiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features DokuWiki WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.5.0
0.30.0
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2007-04-11 (17 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (23 days ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-02-09 (15 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (23 days ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
Ruby's
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Ruby on Rails
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
general, education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements DokuWiki WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
None
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support DokuWiki WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
478 ⭐
32 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
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
1
French
1
English
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
Plugin
No
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
No
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Links DokuWiki WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
None
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Usability DokuWiki WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Output DokuWiki WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files DokuWiki WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
Contents
Extras DokuWiki WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
No
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples DokuWiki WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[[ ]]
[another site](http://example.com)
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
====== ====== level 1
===== ===== level 2
==== ==== level 3
=== === level 4
== == level 5

#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
** **
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
// //
_italic_, *italic*
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__ __
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
## ##
`monospace`
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
@@ @@
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
N/A
[space] level 1
[space][space] level 2
[space][space][...] level X
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
-
-
-
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1)
1)
1)
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
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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