SubWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. WackoWiki

General Features SubWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Version
0.1-dev
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.9.11
6.1.25
Last Release Date
no official
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-14 (18 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Author
Greg Stein
Andreas Gohr
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Academic Free License
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
RCS
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Alpha
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements SubWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
None
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage SubWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
No
Other
No
None
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam SubWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support SubWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
Common Features SubWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features SubWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
1
English
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Links SubWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features SubWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
none
simple
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
None
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Usability SubWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics SubWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output SubWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Patch
Media and Files SubWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras SubWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
No
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Patch
Syntax Examples SubWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= 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'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
//italics//
Underline Format
N/A
__underlined__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospaced}}
''monospace''
`monospaced`
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
N/A
<del>strikethrough</del>
--(strikethrough)--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
vvsubscriptvv
Images
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
N/A
Plugin
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
N/A
N/A
indented text
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
N/A
Plugin
term:: definition
{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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