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

General Features iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Version
1.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
2.11.0
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2011-02-09 (13 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (25 days ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2011-02-11 (13 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (25 days ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
CodeBrewery
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Apache Software Foundation
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
GPL 2
BSD
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
ASP.Net MVC 3 (C# with Razor view engine)
PHP
PHP
Java
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
Development status
Beta
Mature
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
family people, hackers
System Requirements iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Windows Server 2008 +
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
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
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
ASP.Net MVC 3, WebMatrix
mod_rewrite (optional)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Writable data directory
Datastorage iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Optional
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Optional
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
Microsoft SQL Server
None
MariaDB
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
Security/Anti-Spam iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
OpenID
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
Development/Support iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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32 ⭐
88 ⭐
67 ⭐
Common Features iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Comments
No
Plugin
Flat
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Patch
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Perl
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Usability iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Statistics iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
No
Media and Files iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Patch
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
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
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]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
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
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
<b>Bold</b>
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
<i>Italic</i>
//italics//
//italics//
''italics''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>Underline</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
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'}]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
%%(text-align: right) text %%
no example known
Text Indentation
N/A
one
two
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

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

# one
## two
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
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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