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

General Features iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Version
1.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2011-02-09 (13 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month 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 (1 month ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
CodeBrewery
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
ASP.Net MVC 3 (C# with Razor view engine)
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
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
family people, hackers
System Requirements iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Windows Server 2008 +
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Anything supported by Perl
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
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
ASP.Net MVC 3, WebMatrix
mod_rewrite (optional)
Writable data directory
Datastorage iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
Microsoft SQL Server
None
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
OpenID
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
32 ⭐
67 ⭐
Common Features iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
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 Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
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
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
Comments
No
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Custom styles
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
Perl
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
No
Media and Files iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
No
No
Optional
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Patch
No
Syntax Examples iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]]
[[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
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://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 ======
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
<b>Bold</b>
**bold**
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
<i>Italic</i>
//italics//
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>Underline</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
{{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)
Aligning Text
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
no example known
Text Indentation
N/A
one
two
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
- 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
Definition Lists
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
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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