| General Features | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | WikkaWiki | WikyBlog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.45.3
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6.2.1
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1.4.2
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1.5.4
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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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2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
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2007-10-24 (18 years 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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2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
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2007-10-24 (18 years 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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Wikka Development Team
|
Josh Schmidt
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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
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP
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PHP
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PHP
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| Data Storage |
Database
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Database
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Database
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Database
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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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Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
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Private, Internet Communities
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| System Requirements | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | WikkaWiki | WikyBlog |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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OS Independent
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any (platform-independent)
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UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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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
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any server with PHP/MySQL support
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Apache, anything with PHP
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| Other Requirements |
none
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mod_rewrite (optional)
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mod_rewrite (optional)
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MySQL
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| Datastorage | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | WikkaWiki | WikyBlog |
| Text Files |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Oracle |
No
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No
|
No
|
No
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| SQLite |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
No
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
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No
|
No
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| RCS |
No
|
No
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No
|
No
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| Other |
No
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MariaDB
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No
|
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| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | WikkaWiki | WikyBlog |
| 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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Active Directory (patch)
|
No
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| Host Blocking |
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
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| nofollow |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Delayed Indexing |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| Development/Support | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | WikkaWiki | WikyBlog |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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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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42 ⭐
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N/A
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| Common Features | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | WikkaWiki | WikyBlog |
| 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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No
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No
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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
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Special Features | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | WikkaWiki | WikyBlog |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
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 |
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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 |
0
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5
English, French, Japanese, Turkish, Chinese |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
No
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| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Links | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | WikkaWiki | WikyBlog |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | WikkaWiki | WikyBlog |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
All
|
Some
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Scripting |
Optional
|
actions (PHP)
|
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
|
No
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| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | WikkaWiki | WikyBlog |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | WikkaWiki | WikyBlog |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Output | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | WikkaWiki | WikyBlog |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
No
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Patch
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | WikkaWiki | WikyBlog |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Contents
|
No
|
No
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | WikkaWiki | WikyBlog |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | WikkaWiki | WikyBlog |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
CamelCase [[forced]] [[forced|This is a link]] [[forced |日本語]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
http://wikkawiki.org [[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]] [[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
//italics// |
//italic// |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
##monospace## |
##monospaced## |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
--strikethrough-- |
++Strike through text++ |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
""<sup>Superscript</sup>"" |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
""<sub>Subscript</sub>"" |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
@@Center text@@ <<left floated<< >>right floated>> |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
one two |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) indented ~indented |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
*one **One-two *two *three |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) ~- Item 1 ~~- Item 1.1 ~- Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) ~1) Item 1 ~~1) Item 1.1 ~1) Item 2 (more options for lists are available) |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html} |
""<dl> <dt>Coffee</dt> <dd>Black hot drink</dd> <dt>Milk</dt> <dd>White cold drink</dd> </dl>"" |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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