ButorWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki
Version
2.2.1
phpwiki-1.3.14
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2007-03-09 (19 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
Last Update here
2007-07-30 (18 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2026-04-25 (2 months ago)
Author
Aiman Sawan
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
SMB
Any
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Tomcat 4.1 +
various opt. helpers
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Unknown
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Development/Support ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
34
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Optional
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Links ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
Internal Macros
plugins, templates, PHP
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Usability ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Output ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
<a href="..."></a>
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
<a href="..."></a>
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
...
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
<b>Bold</b>
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
Italics Format
<i>Italics</i>
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>Underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[ 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.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# list
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
{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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