Foswiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. WackoWiki vs. Instiki

General Features Foswiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki
Version
2.1.8
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.13
6.1.25
0.30.0
Last Release Date
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (22 days ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (22 days ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
Andreas Gohr
Alex Schroeder
WackoWiki Team
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
Ruby's
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl
PHP
Ruby on Rails
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
personal, small to medium companies
family people, hackers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
general, education
System Requirements Foswiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
mod_rewrite (optional)
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Datastorage Foswiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
No
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
None
No
MariaDB
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support Foswiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
97 ⭐
3582 ⭐
67 ⭐
32 ⭐
478 ⭐
Common Features Foswiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
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
No
Special Features Foswiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
No
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links Foswiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Foswiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Optional, PHP
Perl
actions (PHP)
None
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability Foswiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics Foswiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Output Foswiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Foswiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras Foswiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
No
Optional
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
No
No
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Foswiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
External Link
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[another site](http://example.com)
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
_italic_, *italic*
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
##monospace##
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Plugin
no example known
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
one
two
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Plugin
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
Depending on plugins:
----
----
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