ikiwiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Friki vs. MediaWiki

General Features ikiwiki WackoWiki Friki MediaWiki
Version
2.67
6.2.1
2.1.1
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (8 days ago)
2004-05-14 (21 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (8 days ago)
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
WackoWiki Team
Frank Carver
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
ASL or LGPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
private users and small teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements ikiwiki WackoWiki Friki MediaWiki
Operating System
Any
OS Independent
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any that can run or call Java
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 1.3 or later
none
Datastorage ikiwiki WackoWiki Friki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
No
Other
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki WackoWiki Friki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Patch
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support ikiwiki WackoWiki Friki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
56 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features ikiwiki WackoWiki Friki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features ikiwiki WackoWiki Friki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
Yes
No
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Links ikiwiki WackoWiki Friki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features ikiwiki WackoWiki Friki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
None
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Optional
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Optional
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
Optional
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
No
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
actions (PHP)
Optional
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability ikiwiki WackoWiki Friki MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Optional
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics ikiwiki WackoWiki Friki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Output ikiwiki WackoWiki Friki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Patch
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ikiwiki WackoWiki Friki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Keywords
Extras ikiwiki WackoWiki Friki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
Ticket System
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ikiwiki WackoWiki Friki MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[internal]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

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

indented block of
monospaced text

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

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
one
two
:        indented
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* first
* second
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. first
1. second
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
title:        description
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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