MoasdaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features MoasdaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Version
3.7.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
1.32.2
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2023-12-31 (4 months ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (24 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-01-01 (4 months ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (24 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
Herbert Reiter
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-3.0-only
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal usage, small teams
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
family people, hackers
System Requirements MoasdaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Any platform with Java VM 17+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Built-in
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
Java VM 17+
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Writable data directory
Datastorage MoasdaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
No
Other
No
None
MariaDB
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam MoasdaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
N/A
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support MoasdaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
32 ⭐
N/A
67 ⭐
Common Features MoasdaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MoasdaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, 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
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
Optional
Plugin
Comments
No
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links MoasdaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MoasdaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
Optional
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability MoasdaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics MoasdaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Output MoasdaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
No
Media and Files MoasdaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras MoasdaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
No
Patch
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples MoasdaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link | with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with 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
External Link
[[http://example.org]]
[[http://example.org | with title]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
= Section
== Subsection
=== Sub-subsection
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
##italic##
//italics//
//italics//
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace font@@
''monospace''
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
~~striked through~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
{{html}}<sup>superscript</sup>{{/html}}
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
{{html}}<sub>subscript</sub>{{/html}}
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
{{image:wiki.png}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
{{center}}centered text
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<center>Centered</center>
no example known
Text Indentation
Non-indented text

Single indented text

Double indented text
N/A
one
two
: indented line
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# 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 1.2
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

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