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

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


Strikethrough Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>below</sub>
Images
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{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
Aligning Text
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<center>Centered</center>
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>

Text Indentation
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
: indented line
N/A
one
two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

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


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