WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PhpWiki vs. Instiki vs. WikiNi

General Features WackoWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Instiki WikiNi
Version
6.1.24
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.13
phpwiki-1.3.14
0.30.0
0.5.0
Last Release Date
2023-11-01 (4 months ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2007-04-11 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-11-02 (4 months ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2009-04-03 (14 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2009-02-09 (15 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
Alex Schroeder
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Ruby's
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
PHP
Ruby on Rails
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
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
family people, hackers
Any
general, education
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements WackoWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Instiki WikiNi
Operating System
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
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
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Writable data directory
various opt. helpers
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Datastorage WackoWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Instiki WikiNi
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Other
MariaDB
None
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Instiki WikiNi
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support WackoWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Instiki WikiNi
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
32 ⭐
3582 ⭐
67 ⭐
N/A
478 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Instiki WikiNi
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
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
No
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Instiki WikiNi
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
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
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
1
English
1
French
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Unknown
Links WackoWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Instiki WikiNi
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features WackoWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Instiki WikiNi
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Plugin
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
Perl
plugins, templates, PHP
None
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Usability WackoWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Instiki WikiNi
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics WackoWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Instiki WikiNi
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Output WackoWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Instiki WikiNi
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Office Export
Patch
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Instiki WikiNi
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
No
No
Extras WackoWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Instiki WikiNi
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Patch
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Instiki WikiNi
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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 ]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
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 ]
[another site](http://example.com)
[[ ]]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
#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**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
** **
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italic_, *italic*
// //
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
__ __
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''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>


`monospace`
## ##
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>striked through</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
@@ @@
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
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
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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

p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
Text Indentation
one
two
N/A
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

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

or 
paragraph
and another level 
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
[space] level 1
[space][space] level 2
[space][space][...] level X
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
* list
or
- list
* 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
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# list
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
1)
1)
1)
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Plugin
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Term:<def>
def
term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
Depending on plugins:
----
----
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