Oddmuse vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Instiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features Oddmuse DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki
Version
2.3.13
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
0.30.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (27 days ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (27 days ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
BSD
Ruby's
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
Ruby on Rails
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
general, education
Any
System Requirements Oddmuse DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
mod_rewrite (optional)
Ruby 2.0-2.6
various opt. helpers
Datastorage Oddmuse DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
No
No
No
Yes
Other
No
None
MariaDB
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support Oddmuse DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
67 ⭐
3582 ⭐
32 ⭐
478 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
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
No
Yes
Special Features Oddmuse DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
No
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Links Oddmuse DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Oddmuse DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
All
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
Perl
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
None
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Usability Oddmuse DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Oddmuse DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output Oddmuse DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Yes
Office Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Oddmuse DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
No
No
Extras Oddmuse DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
No
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Oddmuse DokuWiki WackoWiki Instiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
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
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
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]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[another site](http://example.com)
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
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 ======
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
//italics//
_italic_, *italic*
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underlined__
__underline__
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
''monospace''
##monospace##
`monospace`
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
no example known
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
N/A
one
two
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Plugin
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
term
: definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
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