MoasdaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features MoasdaWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Version
3.9.1
6.2.0
1.32.2
2.67
Last Release Date
2024-10-04 (1 year ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-11-03 (1 year ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
Herbert Reiter
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-3.0-only
BSD
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal usage, small teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
Anyone
System Requirements MoasdaWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
Any platform with Java VM 17+
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Built-in
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any with PHP support
Any, or none
Other Requirements
Java VM 17+
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage MoasdaWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Other
No
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam MoasdaWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support MoasdaWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
54 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features MoasdaWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MoasdaWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
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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
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
1
English
Email notification
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links MoasdaWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features MoasdaWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
Optional
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability MoasdaWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Optional
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics MoasdaWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Output MoasdaWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Patch
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MoasdaWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras MoasdaWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
No
Optional
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Yes
Chat
No
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MoasdaWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link | with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[internal]]
External Link
[[http://example.org]]
[[http://example.org | with title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
= Section
== Subsection
=== Sub-subsection
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
##italic##
//italics//
''italic''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
@@monospace font@@
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
~~striked through~~
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
{{html}}<sup>superscript</sup>{{/html}}
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
{{html}}<sub>subscript</sub>{{/html}}
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
{{image:wiki.png}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
{{center}}centered text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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

Single indented text

Double indented text
one
two
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
{{html}}
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
{{/html}}
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term : definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove MoasdaWiki remove WackoWiki remove MediaWiki remove ikiwiki