ikiwiki vs. SubWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Wiki-Toolkit

General Features ikiwiki SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Version
2.67
0.1-dev
6.2.1
0.72
Last Release Date
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
no official
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2006-08-31 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2006-12-05 (19 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Greg Stein
WackoWiki Team
Dominic Hargreaves
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Academic Free License
BSD
GPL/Artistic
Programming Language
Perl
Python
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Alpha
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Wiki Developers
System Requirements ikiwiki SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Operating System
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Anything that runs Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage ikiwiki SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
No
No
Other
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Plugin Interface
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support ikiwiki SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki-toolkit on irc.perl.org
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ikiwiki SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
No
Special Features ikiwiki SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Links ikiwiki SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features ikiwiki SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
HTML Tags
Optional
None
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Tables
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Footnotes
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
None
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Usability ikiwiki SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Unknown
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Access Keys
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Statistics ikiwiki SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Output ikiwiki SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
RSS Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Patch
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
XML export
No
No
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
No
No
Patch
Unknown
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files ikiwiki SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
File Attachments
Yes
No
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
No
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Optional
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
No
Extras ikiwiki SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples ikiwiki SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Internal Link
[[internal]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
N/A
__underline__
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
{{monospaced}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
N/A
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
N/A
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
N/A
,,subscript,,
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
N/A
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
N/A
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
N/A
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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