WackoWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. XWiki vs. TWiki

General Features WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki TWiki
Version
6.1.24
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.32
16.2.0
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2023-11-01 (4 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-23 (6 days ago)
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-11-02 (4 months ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
2024-03-25 (4 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
XWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL 2
GPL2+
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Files
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
All
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Hosting Features WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki TWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki TWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Servlet 3.1+
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki TWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Other
MariaDB
No
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
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.
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Development/Support WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
32 ⭐
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
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
Yes
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
Interface Languages
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
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
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Patch
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Patch
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[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]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
//Italics//
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
--Strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
one
two
: indented line
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** 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 1.2
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
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}
; term : definition
Plugin
: term : definition
; term
: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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----
----
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