WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Wiki.js

General Features WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Version
6.1.25
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.5.299
Last Release Date
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
Nicolas Giard
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
AGPL-v3
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Javascript
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, Files, other, RCS
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
Everyone
System Requirements WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Operating System
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
All
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
All
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Node.js
Datastorage WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Optional
Other
MariaDB
None
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
Development/Support WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
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3582 ⭐
19117 ⭐
Common Features WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
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 Wiki.js
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
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
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
No
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Patch
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
JS, CSS
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Usability WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Output WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Patch
Plugin
No
Media and Files WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
Optional
No
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Patch
No
No
Syntax Examples WackoWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**Bold Text**
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
*Italic Text*
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>Underline Text</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
`Monospace Code`
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
~~Strikethrough Text~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript Text^
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript Text~
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Plugin
Text Indentation
one
two
N/A
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
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
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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