WackoWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Wiki.js

General Features WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Version
6.1.25
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.5.299
Last Release Date
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
Nicolas Giard
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL 2
AGPL-v3
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Javascript
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Database, Files, other, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
Everyone
System Requirements WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Operating System
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
All
Root Access
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
All
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Node.js
Datastorage WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Optional
Other
MariaDB
No
None
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
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
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Optional
Development/Support WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
32 ⭐
N/A
3582 ⭐
19117 ⭐
Common Features WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
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
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
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
Optional
No
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Patch
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional
Optional, PHP
JS, CSS
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Output WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Patch
No
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Extras WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Patch
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[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.org The title]
[[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 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
**Bold Text**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
//italics//
*Italic Text*
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
<u>Underline Text</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
`Monospace Code`
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
~~Strikethrough Text~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript Text^
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript Text~
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.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%%
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
Text Indentation
one
two
: indented line
N/A
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* 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 1.2
# Item 2
- 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}
; term : definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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