MoasdaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. wxWikiServer

General Features MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
Version
3.7.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
6.1.25
1.5.11c
Last Release Date
2023-12-31 (3 months ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (17 days ago)
2005-12-02 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-01-01 (3 months ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (17 days ago)
2006-02-07 (18 years ago)
Author
Herbert Reiter
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Ryan Norton
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-3.0-only
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
PHP
C++
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
NA
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal usage, small teams
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End users/Desktop
System Requirements MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
Operating System
Any platform with Java VM 17+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Built-in
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
built-in
Other Requirements
Java VM 17+
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
None
Datastorage MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
No
Other
No
None
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
unknown
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
Common Features MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
2
German, 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
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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
CamelCase
No
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
All
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
Optional
actions (PHP)
no
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Statistics MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Output MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki wxWikiServer
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link | with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
External Link
[[http://example.org]]
[[http://example.org | with title]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
Headlines
= Section
== Subsection
=== Sub-subsection
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
''' bold text '''
Italics Format
##italic##
//italics//
''italic''
//italics//
'' italic text ''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace font@@
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
start line with blank space.
Strikethrough Format
~~striked through~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
{{html}}<sup>superscript</sup>{{/html}}
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
{{html}}<sub>subscript</sub>{{/html}}
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
{{image:wiki.png}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
Aligning Text
{{center}}centered text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
] centred text
Text Indentation
Non-indented text

Single indented text

Double indented text
N/A
: indented line
one
two
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* one
* two
* two.1
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
Definition Lists
{{html}}
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
{{/html}}
Plugin
; 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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