WikkaWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features WikkaWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Version
1.4.2
1.32.2
2.67
Last Release Date
2020-04-19 (4 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
End Users/Desktop, Education
Anyone
System Requirements WikkaWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Any with PHP support
Any, or none
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage WikkaWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Other
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam WikkaWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
Yes
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support WikkaWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WikkaWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikkaWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
1
English
Email notification
Patch
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links WikkaWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Plugin
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features WikkaWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Optional
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability WikkaWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Patch
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Patch
Yes
No
Statistics WikkaWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Patch
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Patch
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
No
Output WikkaWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Patch
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Patch
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WikkaWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Optional
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras WikkaWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
No
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Yes
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[internal]]
External Link
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
<tt>monospace</tt>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
<s>strikethrough</s>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
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 1.2
# Item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
; term : definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove WikkaWiki remove MediaWiki remove ikiwiki