PhpWiki vs. XWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features PhpWiki XWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
16.3.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2024-05-09 (8 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2024-05-13 (4 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
XWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL 2
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features PhpWiki XWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements PhpWiki XWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage PhpWiki XWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
None
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki XWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Optional
No
Development/Support PhpWiki XWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
32 ⭐
Common Features PhpWiki XWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PhpWiki XWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, 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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links PhpWiki XWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PhpWiki XWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability PhpWiki XWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics PhpWiki XWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output PhpWiki XWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Media and Files PhpWiki XWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras PhpWiki XWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
No
Patch
Syntax Examples PhpWiki XWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//Italics//
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


##monospace##
''monospace''
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
[ 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
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
N/A
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* List
** list
*** list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# list
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
; term
: definition
Plugin
{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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