WikiCrowd vs. DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features WikiCrowd DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Version
0.0.16
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
6.1.25
Last Release Date
29 Nov, 2010
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2010-11-29 (13 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Author
Stas Davydov
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP, XSL, JavaScript
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Personal, Corporate, Community
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements WikiCrowd DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
PHP 5.2 or later, Apache mod_rewrite, iconv
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage WikiCrowd DokuWiki TWiki 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
No
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam WikiCrowd DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
nofollow
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Development/Support WikiCrowd DokuWiki TWiki 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 WikiCrowd DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
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
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikiCrowd DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
2
English, Russian
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Categories
No
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
No
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links WikiCrowd DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features WikiCrowd DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
Plugin, JavaScript
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability WikiCrowd DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics WikiCrowd DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output WikiCrowd DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files WikiCrowd DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras WikiCrowd DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples WikiCrowd DokuWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
@page "Another Wiki Page"
@page[Wiki Page] "Link to Wiki Page"
@page[Wiki Page]
[[Wiki Page or URL]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
@page[http://wikimatrix.org]
@page[http://wikimatrix.org] "It's a link to WikiMatrix"
[[http://wikimatrix.org]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
@title Some Title
@subtitle Some Subtitle
@subsubtitle Some Subsubtitle
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
_italic_
//italics//
Underline Format
No
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
No
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
No
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
_subscript_
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
@img url
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
No
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
No
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
one
two
Bulleted Lists
@listitem Red
Green
Blue
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
No
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
No
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
No
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