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

General Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Version
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
6.1.25
2.3.13
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (13 days ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-01 (23 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (13 days ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 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
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Database
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
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
Any
System Requirements Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
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
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
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
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
None
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Writable data directory
various opt. helpers
Datastorage Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Other
MariaDB
None
No
MariaDB
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
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)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
No
No
Development/Support Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
67 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
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 Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Links Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
All
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Optional, PHP
Optional
actions (PHP)
Perl
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
No
Unknown
Media and Files Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Chat
Yes
No
Unknown
Patch
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
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
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
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
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
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
----------
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
===underline===
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
-+monospace+-
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
--strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>below</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)
[ 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
::centered text::
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
no example known
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
N/A
: indented line
one
two
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
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
* list
or
- list
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
# list
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
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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