Wala Wiki vs. DokuWiki vs. ProWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features Wala Wiki DokuWiki ProWiki WackoWiki
Version
1.1.7
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.0.045
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2024-03-18 (2 months ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2006-10-13 (17 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2007-03-28 (17 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-11-28 (14 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Author
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
Andreas Gohr
Helmut Leitner
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
personal, small to medium companies
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements Wala Wiki DokuWiki ProWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, *BSD
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix / Linux
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any that supports basic CGI.
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Wala Wiki DokuWiki ProWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
Other
diffs
None
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Wala Wiki DokuWiki ProWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support Wala Wiki DokuWiki ProWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
Common Features Wala Wiki DokuWiki ProWiki WackoWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Wala Wiki DokuWiki ProWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
No
Flat
Categories
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Links Wala Wiki DokuWiki ProWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wala Wiki DokuWiki ProWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Custom styles
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Yes
Usability Wala Wiki DokuWiki ProWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wala Wiki DokuWiki ProWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output Wala Wiki DokuWiki ProWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files Wala Wiki DokuWiki ProWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras Wala Wiki DokuWiki ProWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples Wala Wiki DokuWiki ProWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
LinkDump, [link dump]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
= headline =
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
'''bolded'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italicized''
//italics//
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
monospaced.
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
[[strike]strikethrough text]
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>text</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>text</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
:Block-quoted text.
N/A
: indented line
:: indented line
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
# Three
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# numbered list
## numbered list
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
Plugin
; term: definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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