GWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Instiki

General Features GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki
Version
2.4.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
2.3.13
0.30.0
Last Release Date
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (26 days ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (26 days ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Alex Schroeder
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
Ruby's
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Perl
Ruby on Rails
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
family people, hackers
general, education
System Requirements GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Anything supported by Perl
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
mod_rewrite (optional)
Writable data directory
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Datastorage GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Other
Google Datastore
None
MariaDB
No
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
No
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
3582 ⭐
32 ⭐
67 ⭐
478 ⭐
Common Features GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse 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
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
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 GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Plugin
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
Perl
None
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Unknown
Media and Files GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Optional
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
No
Patch
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[another site](http://example.com)
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== 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 6######
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
**bold**
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
_Italic format_
//italics//
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_, *italic*
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
__underlined__
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
''monospace''
##monospace##
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
no example known
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
N/A
one
two
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

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

> blockquote
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

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