| General Features | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.45.3
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6.2.1
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2.0.8
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18.4.0
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| Last Release Date |
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
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2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
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2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
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2026-05-27 (13 days ago)
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| Last Update here |
2026-06-03 (6 days ago)
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2026-04-25 (1 month ago)
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2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
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2026-05-27 (13 days ago)
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| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
WackoWiki Team
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The Horde Project
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XWiki Development Team
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL
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BSD
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GPL 2
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP
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PHP
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Java
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| Data Storage |
Database
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Database
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Database
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Database, RCS
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
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Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
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Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
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| Hosting Features | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Other Limits |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Corporate Branding |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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| Own Domain |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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| Ads allowed |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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No
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| System Requirements | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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OS Independent
|
Any
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Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
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| Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
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run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
Any
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Servlet 5.0+
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| Other Requirements |
none
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mod_rewrite (optional)
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Text_Wiki from PEAR
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Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
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| Datastorage | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| Text Files |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| MySQL |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| PostgreSQL |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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| Oracle |
No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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| SQLite |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| RCS |
No
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No
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No
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Plugin
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| Other |
No
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MariaDB
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None
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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
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| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| ACL |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Authentication Backends |
Yes
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LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
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25 different backends
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XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
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| Host Blocking |
Yes
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Optional
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No
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No
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| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
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Optional
|
No
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Yes
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| nofollow |
Optional
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Optional
|
No
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No
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| Blacklist |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Plugin
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| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
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Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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| Delayed Indexing |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
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| Development/Support | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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54 ⭐
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1 ⭐
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N/A
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| Common Features | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Minor Changes |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Change Summary |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Page History |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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| Revision Diffs |
Between all
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Between all
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Between all
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Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Plugin System |
Yes
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Yes
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No
|
Yes
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| Special Features | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| 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 |
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 |
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese |
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
|
Yes
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Yes
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| Comments |
Discussion Pages
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Flat
|
No
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Threaded
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| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
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Page Locking
|
None
|
Conflict Resolution
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| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
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Yes
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
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| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
Yes
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| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
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Yes
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| Links | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
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Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Freelinks |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Backlinks |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| InterWiki |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| SisterWiki |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
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| Image Links |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Windows Shares |
No
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
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No
|
Yes
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| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
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All
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None
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All
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| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
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Yes
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| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
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simple + complex
|
simple + complex
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| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
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Yes
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| Textile Support |
No
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No
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No
|
No
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| BBCode Support |
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
No
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| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
actions (PHP)
|
No
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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| Statistics | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
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| Output | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
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| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
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 | Wicked | XWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
[a Link] [namespace:link] [link With a Title] |
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://example.com] [http://example.com With a Title] |
[[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 ====== |
+ Level 1 Heading ++ Level 2 Heading +++ Level 3 Heading ++++ Level 4 Heading +++++ Level 5 Heading ++++++ Level 6 Heading |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
**bold** |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
//italics// |
//italics// |
//Italics// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
@@+++ underline @@ |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
##monospace## |
{{monospace}} |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
--strikethrough-- |
@@--- strikethrough @@ |
--Strike-- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
|
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
|
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
local.jpg http://foo.bar/baz.jpg [http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text] |
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%% |
|
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
one two |
|
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 |
* Bullet one * Sub-bullet |
* 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 |
# Numero uno # Number two # Sub-item |
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} |
: Item 1 : Something : Item 2 : Something else |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| remove MediaWiki | remove WackoWiki | remove Wicked | remove XWiki |