MediaWiki vs. MojoMojo vs. PhpWiki vs. TracWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Version
1.45.3
1.02
phpwiki-1.3.14
0.11.5
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2010-08-30 (15 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
Last Update here
2026-06-03 (6 days ago)
2010-09-01 (15 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2026-04-25 (1 month ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Marcus Ramberg et al. (open-source)
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Edgewall Software
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Artistic License
GPL
Modified BSD license
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
FREE
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Wiki, CMS, Blog users
Any
Software development teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any OS that runs Perl
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Has its own server; can run with any web server
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
none
Catalyst
various opt. helpers
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Patch
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Other
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
0
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
11
Catalan, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
141
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, Javanese, 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
34
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Links MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional
JavaScript
plugins, templates, PHP
yes, using Python
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Usability MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Optional
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Patch
Patch
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
No
No
Contents
Extras MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Optional
Blogs
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[another page]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
Markdown:
[Link text](http://example.com)

Textile:
"link text":http://example.com
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Mardown:
#Heading 1

Textile:
h1. Heading 1
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Markdown: **bold**

Textile: *bold*
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
Textile: _underline_
Markdown: use HTML
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
Markdown:
`command line example`

Textile:
@command line example@
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
Textile:
normal text -striked- normal text
<strike>striked through</strike>
~~strike-through~~
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
Textile: ^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
Textile: ~subscript~
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Markdown:
![alt text](/image/path "title text")

Textile:
!http://example.com/image.png!
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
Textile:
< right
> left
= center
<> justify
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
: indented line
Textile:
> text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* an item
* another item
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# item 1
# item 2
# list
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
; term : definition
Textile:
dl. title:data goes here
Term:<def>
def
term::
definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
----
<hr />
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