WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Foswiki

General Features WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Version
6.1.25
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.9.11
2.1.8
Last Release Date
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Operating System
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Other
MariaDB
None
No
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Development/Support WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
32 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
97 ⭐
Common Features WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
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
1
English
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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Links WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Patch
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Patch
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media and Files WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Forums
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Patch
No
No
No
Syntax Examples WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
== 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 =====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold*
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
`monospaced`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Plugin
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
one
two
N/A
indented text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
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
Horizontal Rule
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