LionWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. GWiki

General Features LionWiki DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Version
3.2.4
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
6.1.25
2.3.13
2.4.0
Last Release Date
2010-09-19 (13 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (16 days ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-01 (13 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (16 days ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
Author
Adam Živnéř
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
WackoWiki Team
Alex Schroeder
Roger Rene Kommer
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
GPL
Apache License, Version 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
N/A
0
free
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
advanced users, minimalists
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
family people, hackers
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
System Requirements LionWiki DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Operating System
All PHP supported
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
OS Independent
Anything supported by Perl
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Anything supporting CGI scripts
All Java Servlet Container, included
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Writable data directory
Java 1.8+
Datastorage LionWiki DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Other
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
No
Google Datastore
Security/Anti-Spam LionWiki DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Internal and external with adapter
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
No
Development/Support LionWiki DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
67 ⭐
4 ⭐
Common Features LionWiki DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features LionWiki DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, 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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
German, English
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links LionWiki DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features LionWiki DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
All
Plugin
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
JavaScript (plugin)
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
Perl
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability LionWiki DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Statistics LionWiki DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Output LionWiki DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
No
No
Media and Files LionWiki DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras LionWiki DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
No
No
Syntax Examples LionWiki DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse GWiki
Internal Link
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[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
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
External Link
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
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
[http://example.com]
Headlines
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ 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
----------
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
Bold Format
'''bold''
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*Bold Format*
Italics Format
''italics''
//italics//
_italic_
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_Italic format_
Underline Format
'__underline__'
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
+Unterlined+
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{Monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
'--strikethrough--'
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
-StrikeThrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^Superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
~Subscript~
Images
[path_to_img.jpg]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
((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)
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
Aligning Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
no example known
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
one
two
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Bulleted Lists
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* one
** two
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
Numbered Lists
# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
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
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
{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
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
----
Depending on plugins:
----
----
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