wxWikiServer vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Sputnik vs. PhpWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki Sputnik PhpWiki MediaWiki
Version
1.5.11c
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.24
8.08.13
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2005-12-02 (18 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-11-01 (4 months ago)
2008-08-12 (15 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-07 (18 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2023-11-02 (4 months ago)
2009-02-02 (15 years ago)
2009-04-03 (14 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Ryan Norton
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Yuri Takhteyev
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
GPL 2
BSD
MIT/X
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
C++
PHP
PHP
Lua
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
NA
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Small teams or private users
Any
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki Sputnik PhpWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
built-in
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, CGI, Xavante
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
None
mod_rewrite (optional)
gcc or Lua
various opt. helpers
none
Datastorage wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki Sputnik PhpWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Other
None
MariaDB
Git
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
Security/Anti-Spam wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki Sputnik PhpWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
unknown
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
No
No
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
No
No
Development/Support wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki Sputnik PhpWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki Sputnik PhpWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
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 wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki Sputnik PhpWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Flat
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Links wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki Sputnik PhpWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki Sputnik PhpWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Some
Some
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple
simple
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Scripting
no
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
Lua, JavaScript
plugins, templates, PHP
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki Sputnik PhpWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki Sputnik PhpWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Output wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki Sputnik PhpWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Patch
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki Sputnik PhpWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
No
No
Keywords
Extras wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki Sputnik PhpWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki Sputnik PhpWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[Sputnik]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org)
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
# Sputnik
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
''' bold text '''
**bold**
**bold**
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
Italics Format
'' italic text ''
//italics//
//italics//
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
start line with blank space.
''monospace''
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
<strike>striked through</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
] centred text
Plugin
{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>

<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
N/A
one
two
> Sputnik
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

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


1. Sputnik
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# 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:<def>
def
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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