| General Features | ProWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.0.045
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2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
|
6.1.25
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phpwiki-1.3.14
|
| Last Release Date |
2006-10-13 (17 years ago)
|
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
|
2024-04-11 (22 days ago)
|
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2009-11-28 (14 years ago)
|
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
|
2024-04-11 (22 days ago)
|
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
|
| Author |
Helmut Leitner
|
Andreas Gohr
|
WackoWiki Team
|
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
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GPL 2
|
BSD
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
Perl
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Files
|
Database
|
Database, Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
Any
|
| System Requirements | ProWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki |
| Operating System |
Unix / Linux
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
OS Independent
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
various opt. helpers
|
|
| Datastorage | ProWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Other |
None
|
MariaDB
|
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | ProWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | ProWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
#phpwiki
|
|||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
3582 ⭐
|
32 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | ProWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki |
| 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 |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | ProWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian |
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 |
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
No
|
Plugin
|
Flat
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Links | ProWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | ProWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Optional
|
All
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
actions (PHP)
|
plugins, templates, PHP
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | ProWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | ProWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Output | ProWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | ProWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
No
|
| Extras | ProWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | ProWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki |
| Internal Link |
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
WikiWord or [somelink] [ desc | pagename ] |
| External Link |
http://example.org InterWiki:page [some:link labelforlink] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
http://someserver/someurl [ desc | exturl ] |
| Headlines |
= Headline 1 = == Headline 2 = === Headline 3 = ==== Headline 4 = ===== Headline 5 = ====== Headline 6 = |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
**bold** |
*bold* or <strong>bold</strong> |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
//italics// |
//italics// |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underlined__ |
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
''monospace'' |
##monospace## |
<tt>monospace</tt> <code>code</code> <pre>preformatted</pre> <verbatim> unparsed text</verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
[[strike]strikethrough text] |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
--strikethrough-- |
<strike>striked through</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>text</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>above</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>text</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
vvsubscriptvv |
<sub>below</sub> |
| Images |
http://example.org/file.jpg Upload:file.gif [[Image]...options...] |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
[ 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 |
only as part of tables or citations [align:left|center|right] |
Plugin |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?> or <div align="right"> right </div> |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line :: indented line |
N/A |
one two |
;: left indent ;;: more left indent or paragraph and another level |
| Bulleted Lists |
* bulleted list ** bulleted list |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
*one **One-two *two *three |
* list or - list |
| Numbered Lists |
# numbered list ## numbered list |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
# list |
| Definition Lists |
; term: definition |
Plugin |
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html} |
Term:<def> def |
| Horizontal Rule |
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