Hatta vs. Instiki vs. PmWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features Hatta Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Version
1.6.6
0.30.0
2.6.0
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Radomir Dopieralski
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
Ruby's
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
Python
Ruby on Rails
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
general, education
All
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
System Requirements Hatta Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
Mercurial
Ruby 2.0-2.6
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Hatta Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Plugin
No
No
SQLite
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Other
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
Security/Anti-Spam Hatta Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
n/a
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Optional
No
Development/Support Hatta Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
506 ⭐
N/A
42 ⭐
Common Features Hatta Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
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
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Hatta Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
1
English
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
No
No
Optional
Patch
Comments
No
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Links Hatta Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features Hatta Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript
None
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability Hatta Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
No
No
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Statistics Hatta Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Patch
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Output Hatta Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
No
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Patch
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files Hatta Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
No
Extras Hatta Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
No
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples Hatta Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
[another site](http://example.com)
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
_italic_, *italic*
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
n/a
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
Monospace Format
{{{verbatim}}}
`monospace`
@@monospace@@
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
n/a
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
{-strikethrough-}
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
n/a
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
n/a
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
n/a
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
n/a
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
* list
** sublist
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
Numbered Lists
n/a
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

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

(more options for lists are available)
Definition Lists
n/a
term
: definition
: term : definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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