Friki vs. ikiwiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features Friki ikiwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Version
2.1.1
2.67
1.32.2
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2004-05-14 (21 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (29 days ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (29 days ago)
Author
Frank Carver
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
ASL or LGPL
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Java
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users and small teams
Anyone
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements Friki ikiwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any that can run or call Java
Any, or none
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Java 1.3 or later
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Friki ikiwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Friki ikiwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Patch
Yes
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support Friki ikiwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features Friki ikiwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Friki ikiwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
1
English
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
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Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Links Friki ikiwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Friki ikiwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Optional
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Optional
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Optional
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability Friki ikiwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Friki ikiwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Output Friki ikiwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files Friki ikiwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Extras Friki ikiwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples Friki ikiwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[internal]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
'''bold''
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
monospace
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
:        indented
: indented line
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* first
* second
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
1. first
1. second
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
title:        description
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
; term : definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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