GWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Instiki vs. Corendal Wiki

General Features GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki Corendal Wiki
Version
2.4.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
2.3.13
0.30.0
3.0.2
Last Release Date
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (15 days ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2010-04-22 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (15 days ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2010-04-23 (14 years ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Alex Schroeder
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Thierry Danard
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
Ruby's
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Perl
Ruby on Rails
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Database
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
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
Corporate
System Requirements GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki Corendal Wiki
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
Unix / Windows
Root Access
No
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)
Apache Tomcat, Oracle Application Server
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
mod_rewrite (optional)
Writable data directory
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Java 5.0
Datastorage GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki Corendal Wiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
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 Corendal Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Active Directory or Local Accounts
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
No
Unknown
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki Corendal Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
3582 ⭐
32 ⭐
67 ⭐
478 ⭐
N/A
Common Features GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki Corendal Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki Corendal Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
No
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Links GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki Corendal Wiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki Corendal Wiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
Perl
None
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Usability GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki Corendal Wiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Statistics GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki Corendal Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Output GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki Corendal Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki Corendal Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
No
No
Extras GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki Corendal Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Optional
No
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Chat
No
No
Patch
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples GWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Instiki Corendal Wiki
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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