PageWork vs. WackoWiki

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

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
**bold**
Italics Format
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
//italics//
Underline Format
This is __underlined__.
__underline__
Monospace Format
This is %%monospaced%%.
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
This is --not-- important.
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
vvsubscriptvv
Images
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
: 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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