MediaWiki vs. MojoMojo vs. PhpWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. WikyBlog

General Features MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki WackoWiki WikyBlog
Version
1.45.3
1.02
phpwiki-1.3.14
6.2.1
1.5.4
Last Release Date
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2010-08-30 (15 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
2007-10-24 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-06-03 (6 days ago)
2010-09-01 (15 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2026-04-25 (1 month ago)
2007-10-24 (18 years 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
WackoWiki Team
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Artistic License
GPL
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
FREE
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Wiki, CMS, Blog users
Any
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Private, Internet Communities
System Requirements MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki WackoWiki WikyBlog
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any OS that runs Perl
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, anything with PHP
Other Requirements
none
Catalyst
various opt. helpers
mod_rewrite (optional)
MySQL
Datastorage MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki WackoWiki WikyBlog
Text Files
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Patch
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Other
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki WackoWiki WikyBlog
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
No
Host Blocking
Yes
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Unknown
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki WackoWiki WikyBlog
# 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
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki WackoWiki WikyBlog
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
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 WackoWiki WikyBlog
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
No
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
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
5
English, French, Japanese, Turkish, Chinese
Email notification
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
No
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Links MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki WackoWiki WikyBlog
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki WackoWiki WikyBlog
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
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
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
actions (PHP)
No
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Usability MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki WackoWiki WikyBlog
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Patch
Patch
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki WackoWiki WikyBlog
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki WackoWiki WikyBlog
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Yes
Patch
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki WackoWiki WikyBlog
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
No
Extras MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki WackoWiki WikyBlog
Calendar
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki MojoMojo PhpWiki WackoWiki WikyBlog
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[another page]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
Markdown:
[Link text](http://example.com)

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

Textile:
h1. Heading 1
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Markdown: **bold**

Textile: *bold*
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
Textile: _underline_
Markdown: use HTML
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
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##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
Textile:
normal text -striked- normal text
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
Textile: ^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
Textile: ~subscript~
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
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.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.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%%
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
: indented line
Textile:
> text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

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


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Textile:
dl. title:data goes here
Term:<def>
def
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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<hr />
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