MediaWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Wiki.js

General Features MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Version
1.32.2
25.1, 24.3 LTS, 21.8 LTS
6.1.24
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.5.299
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2023-02-28 (1 year ago)
2023-11-01 (4 months ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-06-02 (9 months ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2023-03-24 (1 year ago)
2023-11-02 (4 months ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2023-07-30 (7 months ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Tiki Software Community Association
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
Nicolas Giard
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL
BSD
GPL 2
AGPL-v3
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Javascript
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Files
Database, Files, other, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
Everyone
System Requirements MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Works on standard shared hosting
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
All
Other Requirements
none
None
mod_rewrite (optional)
Node.js
Datastorage MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Optional
Other
No
MariaDB
MariaDB
None
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Optional
Optional
Development/Support MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, 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
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
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
JS, CSS
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Output MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Media and Files MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
No
Blogs
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Yes
Patch
No
No
Syntax Examples MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
-= Titlebar =-
! 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 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
__bold__
**bold**
**bold**
**Bold Text**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
//italics//
*Italic Text*
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
===underline===
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>Underline Text</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
-+monospace+-
##monospace##
''monospace''
`Monospace Code`
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strike--
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
~~Strikethrough Text~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript Text^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript Text~
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
::centered text::
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Plugin
Text Indentation
: indented line
leading spaces, if activated.
one
two
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# 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
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
Definition Lists
; term : definition
;term:definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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