giewiki vs. WackoWiki vs. LynxWiki vs. Wiclear

General Features giewiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Wiclear
Version
1.13.1
6.2.1
1.3.0.0
1.0
Last Release Date
2011-07-21 (14 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2011-08-14 (14 years ago)
2026-04-25 (1 month ago)
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
Author
Poul Staugaard
WackoWiki Team
J.W. Davidson
David Jobet
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
new BSD License
BSD
Apache License 2.0
GPL2
Programming Language
Python
PHP
C#
PHP
Data Storage
other
Database
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
community/personal
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
small organization to enterprise
private users
System Requirements giewiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Wiclear
Operating System
Windows/Mac/Linux
OS Independent
Windows
All
Root Access
No
No
Yes
No
Webserver
Google App Engine or SDK
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
IIS7 or IIS8
Apache
Other Requirements
Python 2.5
mod_rewrite (optional)
IronPython
MySql
Datastorage giewiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Wiclear
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
App Engine
MariaDB
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
Security/Anti-Spam giewiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Wiclear
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Google accounts
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
MS Membership and Roles
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support giewiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Wiclear
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
54 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features giewiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Wiclear
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features giewiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Wiclear
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
1
English
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
1
English
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
Email notification
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
No
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links giewiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Wiclear
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features giewiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Wiclear
HTML Tags
All
All
None
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
IronPython
Not at the moment
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability giewiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Wiclear
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Yes
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Statistics giewiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Wiclear
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
Output giewiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Wiclear
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Patch
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Patch
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files giewiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Wiclear
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
No
Extras giewiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Wiclear
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples giewiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Wiclear
Internal Link
TiddlyWiki
[[Style library|StyleLib]]
[[Plugins|/Plugins]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
[Title]
External Link
http://appengine.google.com
[[AppEngine|http://appengine.google.com]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
[Title|http://url.to/]
Headlines
!Headline
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
Bold Format
''Bald''
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
//Italy//
//italics//
_italics_
''italic''
Underline Format
__Undertow__
__underline__
+underlined+
Monospace Format
{{{Courier}}}
##monospace##
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
Strikethrough Format
--Sorry--
--strikethrough--
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
256^^2^^
^^superscript^^
superscript^234^
Subscript Format
Sub~~script~~
,,subscript,,
water: H~2~O
Images
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>>
(Args: file [alignment] [width%])
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
N/A
Text Indentation
one
two
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* One
* Two
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* first bullet (8 spaces)
* first sub item bullet
* second item
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. first numbered item
1. second item
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
Definition Lists
; term
: description
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
N/A
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
Horizontal Rule
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