Wiki.js vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

General Features Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Version
2.5.299
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
1.32.2
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
Last Release Date
2023-06-02 (10 months ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (17 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
Last Update here
2023-07-30 (8 months ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (17 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-01 (27 days ago)
Author
Nicolas Giard
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Tiki Software Community Association
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-v3
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
LGPL
Programming Language
Javascript
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, other, RCS
Files
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everyone
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
System Requirements Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Operating System
All
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any with PHP support
Works on standard shared hosting
Other Requirements
Node.js
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
None
Datastorage Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Optional
No
No
No
No
Other
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
None
MariaDB
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
19117 ⭐
3582 ⭐
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
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
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Scripting
JS, CSS
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
Optional
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
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
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Output Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
No
Media and Files Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Extras Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Forums
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Chat
No
No
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Examples Wiki.js DokuWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Internal Link
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
External Link
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
Headlines
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**Bold Text**
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
*Italic Text*
//italics//
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>Underline Text</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
===underline===
Monospace Format
`Monospace Code`
''monospace''
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
-+monospace+-
Strikethrough Format
~~Strikethrough Text~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strike--
Superscript Format
^Superscript Text^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
Subscript Format
~Subscript Text~
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
Images
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
Aligning Text
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<center>Centered</center>
::centered text::
Text Indentation
N/A
one
two
: indented line
leading spaces, if activated.
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
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
Definition Lists
Plugin
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term : definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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