MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. PageWork

General Features MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Version
1.32.2
6.2.0
0.4.8
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2010-07-20 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Pitt Murmann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPLv3
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Medium-sized sites
System Requirements MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Text Files
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Patch
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
No
No
Other
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Proprietary
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Development/Support MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
2
German, English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
No
Output MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Keywords
Extras MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
No
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
: indented line
one
two
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
Definition Lists
; term : definition
{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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