| General Features | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.45.3
|
2.3.13
|
6.2.1
|
| Last Release Date |
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
|
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
|
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-06-03 (6 days ago)
|
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
|
2026-04-25 (1 month ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Alex Schroeder
|
WackoWiki Team
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPL
|
BSD
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Perl
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
free
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
family people, hackers
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Anything supported by Perl
|
OS Independent
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
Anything supporting CGI scripts
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
Writable data directory
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
No
|
No
|
MariaDB
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
None (use your web server instead)
|
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
88 ⭐
|
54 ⭐
|
| Common Features | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Age
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Optional
|
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 |
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, 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 |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Links | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Plugin
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
Perl
|
actions (PHP)
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Output | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
optional, default on: [[page name]] optional, default off: PageName [PageName] → [1] [[[page name]]] → [1] [PageName text] → text [[page name|text]] → text Depending on plugins: [text](page) → text |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://example.com/ [http://example.com/] → [1] optional, default on: [http://example.com/ text] → text Depending on plugins: [text](http://example.com/) → text |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
Depending on plugins: ## two ### three == two == === three == section ======= subsection ---------- |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
Depending on plugins: *bold* **bold* '''bold''' |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
Depending on plugins: *italic* /italic/ //italic// ''italic'' |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
Depending on plugins: _underline_ __underline__ |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
Depending on plugins: `mono` ##mono## [code]mono[/code] <tt>mono</tt> <code>mono</code> |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
via bbCode plugin: [s]strike through[/s] |
--strikethrough-- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
via bbCode plugin: [sup]superscript[/sup] |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
via bbCode plugin: [sub]subscript[/sub] |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
http://example.com/pic.jpg Depending on plugins: [[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants  |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
no example known |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
Depending on plugins: > text [quote] text [/quote] : one :: two |
one two |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* one ** two |
*one **One-two *two *three |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
Depending on plugins: 1. one 2. two # one ## two |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
Depending on plugins: ; term: definition |
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html} |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
Depending on plugins: ---- |
---- |
| remove MediaWiki | remove Oddmuse | remove WackoWiki |