WikkaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
Version
1.4.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.32
1.32.2
6.1.24
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2020-04-19 (3 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-23 (5 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2023-11-01 (4 months ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (3 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2023-11-02 (4 months ago)
2009-04-03 (14 years ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL2+
GPL
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Database
Database
Database, Files, 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
All
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Any
System Requirements WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
various opt. helpers
Datastorage WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Other
No
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
MariaDB
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
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
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
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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Patch
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Links WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Plugin
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional
actions (PHP)
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Patch
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Patch
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Output WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Patch
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Office Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
No
No
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
====== 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
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>below</sub>
Images
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[ 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
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
: indented line
one
two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
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 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* list
or
- list
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 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# list
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}
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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