WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. Instiki

General Features WackoWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki Instiki
Version
6.1.25
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
phpwiki-1.3.14
0.30.0
Last Release Date
2024-04-11 (28 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-11 (28 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
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
License
BSD
GPL 2
GPL
Ruby's
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Ruby on Rails
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
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
Any
general, education
System Requirements WackoWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki Instiki
Operating System
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
various opt. helpers
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Datastorage WackoWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki Instiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
Other
MariaDB
None
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki Instiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Development/Support WackoWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki Instiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
32 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
478 ⭐
Common Features WackoWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki Instiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
No
Special Features WackoWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki Instiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Links WackoWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki Instiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WackoWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki Instiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Patch
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
plugins, templates, PHP
None
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability WackoWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki Instiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics WackoWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki Instiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output WackoWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki Instiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki Instiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
No
Extras WackoWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki Instiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
Yes
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Patch
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki Instiki
Internal Link 
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
 
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
 
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
External Link 
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
 
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
 
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 ==
 
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3

#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
Bold Format 
**bold**
 
**bold**
 
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
 
**bold**
Italics Format 
//italics//
 
//italics//
 
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
 
_italic_, *italic*
Underline Format 
__underline__
 
__underlined__
 
<u>underlined</u>
 
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
Monospace Format 
##monospace##
 
''monospace''
 
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>



`monospace`
Strikethrough Format 
--strikethrough--
 
<del>strikethrough</del>
 
<strike>striked through</strike>
 
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
Superscript Format 
^^superscript^^
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
<sup>above</sup>
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format 
vvsubscriptvv
 
<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://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
 
<?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
 
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 

p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
Bulleted Lists 
*one
**One-two
*two
*three

* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
 
* 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
 
# list
 
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. 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:<def>
def
 
term
: definition
Horizontal Rule 
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