iKnow - a tiny wiki vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Version
1.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2011-02-09 (13 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2011-02-11 (13 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
CodeBrewery
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
GPL 2
BSD
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
ASP.Net MVC 3 (C# with Razor view engine)
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everyone in need of a (really) tiny wiki or a internal knowledge database
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
all
System Requirements iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Windows Server 2008 +
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS 7.0 +
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
ASP.Net MVC 3, WebMatrix
mod_rewrite (optional)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Optional
Oracle
No
No
No
Optional
SQLite
No
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
Microsoft SQL Server
None
MariaDB
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
OpenID
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Yes
Development/Support iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
32 ⭐
88 ⭐
Common Features iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
No
Plugin
Flat
Flat
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Patch
Patch
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Usability iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Optional
Yes
Blogs
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
<a href="http://www.google.ch">ExternalLink</a>
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
<h1>Headline</h1>
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
<b>Bold</b>
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
<i>Italic</i>
//italics//
//italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>Underline</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
N/A
one
two
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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