GWiki vs. WikkaWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features GWiki WikkaWiki MediaWiki
Version
2.4.0
1.4.2
1.45.3
Last Release Date
2018-06-15 (8 years ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2025-12-04 (10 months ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (8 years ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2026-06-03 (4 months ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Wikka Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements GWiki WikkaWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
any (platform-independent)
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage GWiki WikkaWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Other
Google Datastore
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki WikkaWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
Active Directory (patch)
Yes
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support GWiki WikkaWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
7 ⭐
42 ⭐
N/A
Common Features GWiki WikkaWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features GWiki WikkaWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
0
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
Email notification
Yes
Patch
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links GWiki WikkaWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Patch
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Patch
Yes
Syntax Features GWiki WikkaWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Unknown
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability GWiki WikkaWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Patch
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Statistics GWiki WikkaWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Patch
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Patch
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Optional
Output GWiki WikkaWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Patch
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
No
No
Unknown
Media and Files GWiki WikkaWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Keywords
Extras GWiki WikkaWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
Unknown
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples GWiki WikkaWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_Italic format_
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
##monospaced##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
++Strike through text++
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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