PukiWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features PukiWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Version
1.5.1
6.1.25
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements PukiWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
OS independent
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage PukiWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
MariaDB
None
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Patch
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Development/Support PukiWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features PukiWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
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
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Categories
No
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Links PukiWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PukiWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Patch
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability PukiWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Patch
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics PukiWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output PukiWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Media and Files PukiWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras PukiWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Optional
Optional
No
Blogs
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Optional
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
No
Syntax Examples PukiWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
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
== 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**
Italics Format
'''italic'''
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
%%%underlined%%%
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
N/A
##monospace##
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
N/A
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
N/A
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Plugin
Text Indentation
N/A
one
two
N/A
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ 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
{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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