WikkaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PmWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Wiki.js

General Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js
Version
1.4.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
2.3.33
6.1.25
2.5.299
Last Release Date
2020-04-19 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-20 (5 days ago)
2024-04-11 (14 days ago)
2023-06-02 (10 months ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (4 days ago)
2024-04-11 (14 days ago)
2023-07-30 (8 months ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
WackoWiki Team
Nicolas Giard
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
BSD
AGPL-v3
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Javascript
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Files
Database
Database, Files, other, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Everyone
System Requirements WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
All
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Node.js
Datastorage WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Other
No
None
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
MariaDB
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Optional
No
Optional
Development/Support WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
32 ⭐
19117 ⭐
Common Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, 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
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
Email notification
Patch
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Links WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Optional, PHP
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
actions (PHP)
JS, CSS
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Patch
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Patch
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Output WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Patch
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
No
Media and Files WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
No
Patch
No
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiki.js
Internal Link
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
External Link
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
**Bold Text**
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
*Italic Text*
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
<u>Underline Text</u>
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
`Monospace Code`
Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
~~Strikethrough Text~~
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
^Superscript Text^
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
vvsubscriptvv
~Subscript Text~
Images
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
N/A
: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
one
two
Bulleted Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
Numbered Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

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

(more options for lists are available)
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Plugin
; term : definition
: 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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