Instiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. WackoWiki vs. WikiNi

General Features Instiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
Version
0.30.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.13
6.1.25
0.5.0
Last Release Date
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (23 days ago)
2007-04-11 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (23 days ago)
2009-02-09 (15 years ago)
Author
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Andreas Gohr
Alex Schroeder
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Ruby's
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Ruby on Rails
PHP
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
general, education
personal, small to medium companies
family people, hackers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements Instiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
OS Independent
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Writable data directory
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Instiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
No
Oracle
Plugin
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
No
Other
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
None
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Instiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support Instiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
478 ⭐
3582 ⭐
67 ⭐
32 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Instiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Instiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
1
French
Email notification
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links Instiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Instiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Plugin
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
None
Optional, PHP
Perl
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Usability Instiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Statistics Instiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Output Instiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Instiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras Instiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Instiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki WikiNi
Internal Link
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
External Link
[another site](http://example.com)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[ ]]
Headlines
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
====== 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 1
===== ===== level 2
==== ==== level 3
=== === level 4
== == level 5

Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
** **
Italics Format
_italic_, *italic*
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
// //
Underline Format
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
__underlined__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
__ __
Monospace Format
`monospace`
''monospace''
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
##monospace##
## ##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
<del>strikethrough</del>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--strikethrough--
@@ @@
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
vvsubscriptvv
Images
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
Plugin
no example known
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
N/A
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
one
two
[space] level 1
[space][space] level 2
[space][space][...] level X
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
-
-
-
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1)
1)
1)
Definition Lists
term
: definition
Plugin
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
***
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Depending on plugins:
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