MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. XWiki

General Features MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
Version
1.32.2
6.2.1
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
18.1.0
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (15 days ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2026-02-23 (23 days ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (15 days ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2026-02-23 (23 days ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
Public Domain (!)
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
small + medium sites, development teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
any
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
anything with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
Text Files
No
No
Plugin
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other
No
MariaDB
no
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Patch
Yes
Development/Support MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
56 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
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
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Patch
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
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Links MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Optional
actions (PHP)
optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Yes
Patch
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Output MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Optional
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
No
Contents
Extras MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
''ialic text''
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
optional or via css
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
==monospaced text==
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
optional or via css
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript text^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
optional or via css
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[link to the image.jpg]
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
optional or via css
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
: indented line
one
two
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term : definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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