WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Version
6.1.25
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
Last Release Date
2024-04-11 (21 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (12 days ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-11 (21 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (11 days ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
GPL2+
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
All
System Requirements WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
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. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
MariaDB
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
Development/Support WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
32 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Optional
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Patch
No
No
Syntax Examples WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
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
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
one
two
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# 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
Horizontal Rule
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