Git-Wiki vs. WackoWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. ProWiki

General Features Git-Wiki WackoWiki ikiwiki ProWiki
Version
1.0
6.1.29
2.67
2.0.045
Last Release Date
2025-09-03 (2 months ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2022-04-17 (3 years ago)
2025-10-13 (1 month ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Helmut Leitner
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
BSD
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Ruby
PHP
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
RCS
Database
Files, RCS
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
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
System Requirements Git-Wiki WackoWiki ikiwiki ProWiki
Operating System
*nix
OS Independent
Any
Unix / Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any, or none
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Other Requirements
Ruby
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage Git-Wiki WackoWiki ikiwiki ProWiki
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
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Other
Git
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Git-Wiki WackoWiki ikiwiki ProWiki
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
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support Git-Wiki WackoWiki ikiwiki ProWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
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 ProWiki
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 ProWiki
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
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Flat
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Links Git-Wiki WackoWiki ikiwiki ProWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Git-Wiki WackoWiki ikiwiki ProWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Optional
Some
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
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
XML based, Javascript
actions (PHP)
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability Git-Wiki WackoWiki ikiwiki ProWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Statistics Git-Wiki WackoWiki ikiwiki ProWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Output Git-Wiki WackoWiki ikiwiki ProWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Patch
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 ProWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras Git-Wiki WackoWiki ikiwiki ProWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Git-Wiki WackoWiki ikiwiki ProWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[internal]]
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
External Link
[[http://example.org|The title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[link text](http://example.org)
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
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
---------
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

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

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
Text Indentation
one
two
: indented line
:: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
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
# numbered list
## numbered list
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>
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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