| General Features | Git-Wiki | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | LynxWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.0
|
6.1.29
|
2.67
|
1.3.0.0
|
| Last Release Date |
2025-09-03 (2 months ago)
|
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
|
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
|
|
| Last Update here |
2022-04-17 (3 years ago)
|
2025-10-13 (1 month ago)
|
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
|
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
|
| Author |
WackoWiki Team
|
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
|
J.W. Davidson
|
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
MIT
|
BSD
|
GPL
|
Apache License 2.0
|
| Programming Language |
Ruby
|
PHP
|
Perl
|
C#
|
| Data Storage |
RCS
|
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
Database, Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free
|
0
|
0
|
$0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Private, Public
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
Anyone
|
small organization to enterprise
|
| System Requirements | Git-Wiki | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | LynxWiki |
| Operating System |
*nix
|
OS Independent
|
Any
|
Windows
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Webserver |
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
Any, or none
|
IIS7 or IIS8
|
| Other Requirements |
Ruby
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
IronPython
|
|
| Datastorage | Git-Wiki | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | LynxWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
Git
|
MariaDB
|
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Git-Wiki | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | LynxWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Plugin system, backends can be added
|
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
|
MS Membership and Roles
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Git-Wiki | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | LynxWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
242 ⭐
|
54 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | Git-Wiki | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | LynxWiki |
| Preview |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Plugin
|
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
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | Git-Wiki | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | LynxWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
4
Czech, German, English, French |
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
1
English |
1
English |
| Email notification |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Comments |
No
|
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
None
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Links | Git-Wiki | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | LynxWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Git-Wiki | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | LynxWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Plugin
|
All
|
Optional
|
None
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
XML based, Javascript
|
actions (PHP)
|
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
|
IronPython
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Git-Wiki | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | LynxWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | Git-Wiki | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | LynxWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Output | Git-Wiki | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | LynxWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RSS Feeds |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Git-Wiki | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | LynxWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
| Extras | Git-Wiki | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | LynxWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Git-Wiki | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | LynxWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
[[internal]] |
CamelCase "display text":DisplayText |
| External Link |
[[http://example.org|The title]] |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
[link text](http://example.org) |
http://www.wikimatrix.org "Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org "this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com |
| Headlines |
== Section === Subsection ==== Sub-subsection or == Section == === Subsection === ==== Sub-subsection ==== |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
Two syntaxes: # heading 1 ## heading 2 ### heading 3 heading 1 ========= heading 2 --------- |
!!Header 2 !!!Header 3 !!!!!!Header 6 |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
**bold** |
**bold** __bold__ |
*bold* '''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
//italic// |
//italics// |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
_italics_ |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
+underlined+ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
##monospace## |
`inline monospace` indented block of monospaced text tab-indented block |
[indent single space] @mono space on single line@ @@ start on multiline with end @@ |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
--strikethrough-- |
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
-strikethrough- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
superscript^234^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
vvsubscriptvv |
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
water: H~2~O |
| Images |
{{Image.png}} |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
  |
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg] http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg |
| Aligning Text |
|
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
|
N/A |
| Text Indentation |
|
one two |
|
N/A |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
*one **One-two *two *three |
* item 1 * item 2 * item 2.1 * item 2.2 |
* first bullet (8 spaces) * first sub item bullet * second item |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
1. item 1 2. item 2 1. item 1.1 42. the value doesn't matter 1. any value works |
1. first numbered item 1. second item |
| Definition Lists |
|
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html} |
via HTML: <dl> <dt>term</dt> <dd>definition</dd> </dl> |
N/A |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
---- |
--- *** ___ ------------------ Any number > 3 - - - - - - - - - - spaces don't matter |
---- |
| remove Git-Wiki | remove WackoWiki | remove ikiwiki | remove LynxWiki |