UseMod vs. DokuWiki vs. Foswiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features UseMod DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Version
1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.1.8
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Andreas Gohr
Foswiki Community
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements UseMod DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage UseMod DokuWiki Foswiki 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
No
No
Yes
No
Other
No
None
caching of content into database using plugins
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Patch
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Development/Support UseMod DokuWiki Foswiki 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 ⭐
97 ⭐
32 ⭐
Common Features UseMod DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features UseMod DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links UseMod DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features UseMod DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
None
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability UseMod DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics UseMod DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output UseMod DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Media and Files UseMod DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras UseMod DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Patch
Syntax Examples UseMod DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
_italic_
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
N/A
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
http://url.com/pic.gif
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
N/A
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
: indented
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
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
;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}
Horizontal Rule
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