WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Version
6.1.25
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (25 days ago)
2020-04-19 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (24 days ago)
2020-04-20 (4 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
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
All
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
System Requirements WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any (platform-independent)
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. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
MariaDB
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
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.
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
No
Development/Support WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
# 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
42 ⭐
Common Features WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 PmWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
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
0
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Patch
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Statistics WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Patch
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Patch
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Plugin
Patch
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media and Files WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Patch
No
No
No
Syntax Examples WackoWiki DokuWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
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]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
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://...]]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
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 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
++Strike through text++
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}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
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
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
one
two
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
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
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- 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
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
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
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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