Instiki vs. LynxWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Wiki-Toolkit

General Features Instiki LynxWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Version
0.30.0
1.3.0.0
6.2.1
0.72
Last Release Date
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
2026-03-03 (30 days ago)
2006-08-31 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
2026-03-03 (30 days ago)
2006-12-05 (19 years ago)
Author
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
J.W. Davidson
WackoWiki Team
Dominic Hargreaves
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Ruby's
Apache License 2.0
BSD
GPL/Artistic
Programming Language
Ruby on Rails
C#
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
general, education
small organization to enterprise
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Wiki Developers
System Requirements Instiki LynxWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Windows
OS Independent
Anything that runs Perl
Root Access
No
Yes
No
No
Webserver
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
IIS7 or IIS8
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
IronPython
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Instiki LynxWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Plugin
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Instiki LynxWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
MS Membership and Roles
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Plugin Interface
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
No
Development/Support Instiki LynxWiki 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
506 ⭐
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Instiki LynxWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
No
Special Features Instiki LynxWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links Instiki LynxWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Instiki LynxWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
HTML Tags
All
None
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Textile Support
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Unknown
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Scripting
None
IronPython
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Usability Instiki LynxWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Unknown
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Statistics Instiki LynxWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Output Instiki LynxWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
No
No
Yes
Unknown
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Patch
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
XML export
No
No
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
No
No
Patch
Unknown
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Instiki LynxWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
No
Extras Instiki LynxWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Calendar
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Instiki LynxWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Internal Link
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[another site](http://example.com)
http://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_, *italic*
_italics_
//italics//
Underline Format
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
+underlined+
__underline__
Monospace Format
`monospace`
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
superscript^234^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
water: H~2~O
,,subscript,,
Images
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
N/A
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
N/A
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* first bullet (8 spaces)
* first sub item bullet
* second item
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
1. first numbered item
1. second item
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
term
: definition
N/A
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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