Wicked vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PhpWiki

General Features Wicked DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Version
2.0.8
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
1.9.11
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2017-09-20 (6 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (22 days ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-15 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (22 days ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
The Horde Project
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Any
System Requirements Wicked DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Operating System
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Text_Wiki from PEAR
mod_rewrite (optional)
None
various opt. helpers
Datastorage Wicked DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
No
No
No
Yes
Other
None
None
MariaDB
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam Wicked DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
25 different backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support Wicked DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
1 ⭐
3582 ⭐
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wicked DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wicked DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Links Wicked DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wicked DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
All
Some
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Yes
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
No
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
plugins, see comment ---------------->
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Usability Wicked DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wicked DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output Wicked DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Patch
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Unknown
Media and Files Wicked DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
No
Extras Wicked DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Galleries
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
Blogs
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Ticket System
Optional
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
No
Patch
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wicked DokuWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Internal Link
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
====== 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 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
@@+++ underline @@
__underlined__
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
''monospace''
##monospace##
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
@@--- strikethrough @@
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
Images
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
N/A
one
two
indented text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
Plugin
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
term:: definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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