WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Wiki.js vs. XWiki

General Features WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js XWiki
Version
6.1.25
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
2.3.33
2.5.299
16.2.0
Last Release Date
2024-04-11 (15 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-20 (6 days ago)
2023-06-02 (10 months ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-11 (15 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (5 days ago)
2023-07-30 (8 months ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Nicolas Giard
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
AGPL-v3
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Javascript
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Files
Database, Files, other, RCS
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
Everyone
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js XWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
All
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
All
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
none
Node.js
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js XWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Other
MariaDB
None
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Development/Support WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
32 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
19117 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Interface Languages
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, 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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Links WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Patch
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JS, CSS
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Statistics WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Output WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Media and Files WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Forums
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Patch
No
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js XWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
== 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
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**Bold Text**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
*Italic Text*
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
<u>Underline Text</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
`Monospace Code`
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
~~Strikethrough Text~~
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^Superscript Text^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
~Subscript Text~
,,subscript,,
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
one
two
N/A
: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Plugin
; term : definition
: term : definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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