Drupal Wiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Version
8.26
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.3.33
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2023-05-31 (10 months ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2024-04-20 (3 days ago)
2024-04-11 (12 days ago)
Last Update here
2023-06-05 (10 months ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2024-04-21 (2 days ago)
2024-04-11 (12 days ago)
Author
https://kontextwork.de
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
BSD
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Different licences
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
All
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, nginx
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
none
various opt. helpers
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
None
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
No
Optional
No
Development/Support Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
32 ⭐
Common Features Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
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
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, 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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Links Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Some
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Widgets
Optional, PHP
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Media and Files Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Patch
Syntax Examples Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
//italics//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
vvsubscriptvv
Images
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
N/A
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
one
two
Bulleted Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Plugin
; term : definition
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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