MediaWiki vs. MojoMojo vs. WackoWiki vs. WikyBlog

General Features MediaWiki MojoMojo WackoWiki WikyBlog
Version
1.45.3
1.02
6.2.1
1.5.4
Last Release Date
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2010-08-30 (15 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)
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)
WackoWiki Team
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Artistic License
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
FREE
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Wiki, CMS, Blog users
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Private, Internet Communities
System Requirements MediaWiki MojoMojo WackoWiki WikyBlog
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any OS that runs Perl
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Has its own server; can run with any web server
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, anything with PHP
Other Requirements
none
Catalyst
mod_rewrite (optional)
MySQL
Datastorage MediaWiki MojoMojo WackoWiki WikyBlog
Text Files
No
Unknown
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Patch
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
No
RCS
No
Unknown
No
No
Other
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki MojoMojo WackoWiki WikyBlog
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
No
Host Blocking
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki MojoMojo WackoWiki WikyBlog
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki MojoMojo WackoWiki WikyBlog
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki MojoMojo WackoWiki WikyBlog
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
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
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
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
No
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Links MediaWiki MojoMojo WackoWiki WikyBlog
CamelCase
No
No
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Unknown
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features MediaWiki MojoMojo WackoWiki WikyBlog
HTML Tags
Some
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
No
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability MediaWiki MojoMojo WackoWiki WikyBlog
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki MojoMojo WackoWiki WikyBlog
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Analysis
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
No
Output MediaWiki MojoMojo WackoWiki WikyBlog
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki MojoMojo WackoWiki WikyBlog
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras MediaWiki MojoMojo WackoWiki WikyBlog
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
No
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki MojoMojo WackoWiki WikyBlog
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[another page]]
[[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
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
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Markdown: **bold**

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

Textile:
@command line example@
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
Textile:
normal text -striked- normal text
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
Textile: ^superscript^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
Textile: ~subscript~
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Markdown:
![alt text](/image/path "title text")

Textile:
!http://example.com/image.png!
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
Textile:
< right
> left
= center
<> justify
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
: indented line
Textile:
> text
one
two
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* an item
* another item
*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
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
{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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