Pwic.wiki vs. Wiki.js vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

General Features Pwic.wiki Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Version
1.1
2.5.299
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.24
1.32.2
25.1, 24.3 LTS, 21.8 LTS
Last Release Date
2023-03-10 (1 year ago)
2023-06-02 (9 months ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-11-01 (4 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2023-02-28 (1 year ago)
Last Update here
2023-09-11 (6 months ago)
2023-07-30 (7 months ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2023-11-02 (4 months ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2023-03-24 (1 year ago)
Author
Team Pwic.wiki
Nicolas Giard
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Tiki Software Community Association
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU Affero General Public License version 3
AGPL-v3
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
LGPL
Programming Language
Python
Javascript
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, other, RCS
Files
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Personal, IT consultancy, Software development, Small to medium companies
Everyone
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
System Requirements Pwic.wiki Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS
All
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Stand-alone (Python aiohttp)
All
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any with PHP support
Works on standard shared hosting
Other Requirements
Node.js
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
None
Datastorage Pwic.wiki Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Optional
No
No
No
No
Other
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
None
MariaDB
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Pwic.wiki Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Salted password, OAuth2 (Google, Microsoft, Github), 2FA TOTP
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Patch
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support Pwic.wiki Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3 ⭐
19117 ⭐
3582 ⭐
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Pwic.wiki Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Pwic.wiki Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
3
German, English, French
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, 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
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
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Patch
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Flat
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links Pwic.wiki Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Patch
No
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Patch
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Pwic.wiki Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Scripting
External API for automation and bots
JS, CSS
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
Optional
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Content Includes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Pwic.wiki Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Pwic.wiki Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Patch
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Output Pwic.wiki Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
Optional
No
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
No
Media and Files Pwic.wiki Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Extras Pwic.wiki Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Calendar
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Forums
No
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Chat
No
No
No
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Examples Pwic.wiki Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Internal Link
[Paragraph](#p_1_1)
[Page](/project/page)
[Attachment](/special/document/1)
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
External Link
[Link](https://pwic.wiki/en)
<https://pwic.wiki/en>
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
Headlines
# Title 1
## Title 2
### Title 3
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
**Bold Text**
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
*italics*
*Italic Text*
//italics//
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
--underline--
<u>Underline Text</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
===underline===
Monospace Format
`keyword`

```python
print('Block of code')
```
`Monospace Code`
''monospace''
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
-+monospace+-
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
~~Strikethrough Text~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strike--
Superscript Format
x<sup>2</sup> (trick)
^Superscript Text^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
Subscript Format
x<sub>2</sub> (trick)
~Subscript Text~
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
Images
![Caption](/special/document/1 "Image").
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
Aligning Text
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<center>Centered</center>
::centered text::
Text Indentation
> Block line 1
> Block line 2
N/A
one
two
: indented line
leading spaces, if activated.
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 1.1
- Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Line 1
2. Line 2
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term : definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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