PmWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Version
2.3.33
1.32.2
6.1.25
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2024-04-20 (29 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-21 (28 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
MariaDB
None
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Optional
Development/Support PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
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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3582 ⭐
Common Features PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
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 PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, 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
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
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Patch
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Output PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Media and Files PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Extras PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Patch
No
Syntax Examples PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Plugin
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
: indented line
one
two
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# 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


- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
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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