Wicked vs. TWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. WikkaWiki vs. XWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features Wicked TWiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Version
2.0.8
TWiki-6.1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.4.2
16.2.0
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2017-09-20 (6 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2020-04-19 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (27 days ago)
2024-04-11 (9 days ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-15 (5 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2020-04-20 (4 years ago)
2024-03-25 (26 days ago)
2024-04-11 (9 days ago)
Author
The Horde Project
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Andreas Gohr
Wikka Development Team
XWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Files
Database
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
personal, small to medium companies
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features Wicked TWiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
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 Wicked TWiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any (platform-independent)
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Servlet 3.1+
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Text_Wiki from PEAR
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Wicked TWiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
None
No
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
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Wicked TWiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
25 different backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Active Directory (patch)
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Wicked TWiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
1 ⭐
N/A
3582 ⭐
42 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
Common Features Wicked TWiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wicked TWiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
0
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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Patch
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links Wicked TWiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wicked TWiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Optional
Some
All
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
No
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional, PHP
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Wicked TWiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Statistics Wicked TWiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output Wicked TWiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Patch
Office Export
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Patch
Media and Files Wicked TWiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
No
Contents
Contents
Extras Wicked TWiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Syntax Examples Wicked TWiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
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)
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
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 6
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
//italics//
//italic//
//Italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
@@+++ underline @@
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
__underlined__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
##monospaced##
##monospace##
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
@@--- strikethrough @@
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
++Strike through text++
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
,,subscript,,
vvsubscriptvv
Images
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Plugin
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
$ Term: Definition
Plugin
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
; 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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