Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Version
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
6.1.25
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (25 days ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-01 (1 month ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (25 days ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
Tiki Software Community Association
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
family people, hackers
System Requirements Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Works on standard shared hosting
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
None
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Writable data directory
Datastorage Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
No
Other
MariaDB
None
No
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
67 ⭐
Common Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
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
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
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Optional, PHP
Optional
actions (PHP)
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Output Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
No
Media and Files Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
Yes
No
Unknown
Patch
No
Syntax Examples Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
External Link
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
===underline===
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
-+monospace+-
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
--strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
::centered text::
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
no example known
Text Indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
N/A
: indented line
one
two
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- 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


Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
;term:definition
Plugin
; term : definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
----
Depending on plugins:
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