MoasdaWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features MoasdaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Version
3.9.1
1.32.2
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2024-10-04 (1 year ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (13 days ago)
Last Update here
2024-11-03 (1 year ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (13 days ago)
Author
Herbert Reiter
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-3.0-only
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal usage, small teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements MoasdaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Any platform with Java VM 17+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Built-in
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Java VM 17+
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage MoasdaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
No
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam MoasdaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support MoasdaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features MoasdaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MoasdaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
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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, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links MoasdaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MoasdaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
JavaScript
Optional
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability MoasdaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics MoasdaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
Output MoasdaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
No
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files MoasdaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
Extras MoasdaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
No
No
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples MoasdaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link | with title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[[http://example.org]]
[[http://example.org | with title]]
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
= Section
== Subsection
=== Sub-subsection
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
''bold''
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
##italic##
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace font@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
~~striked through~~
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
{{html}}<sup>superscript</sup>{{/html}}
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
{{html}}<sub>subscript</sub>{{/html}}
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
{{image:wiki.png}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
{{center}}centered text
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
Non-indented text

Single indented text

Double indented text
: indented line
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
{{html}}
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
{{/html}}
; term : definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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