PhpWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.5.1
6.1.29
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2016-03-07 (9 years ago)
2025-09-03 (2 months ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2016-03-23 (9 years ago)
2025-10-13 (1 month ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
PukiWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
One theme, one PukiWiki
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Patch
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Patch
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Patch
Structured Data
Patch
No
Plugin
Links PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Patch
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Patch
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Extras PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Optional
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
No
Optional
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link 
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
 
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
 
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link 
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
 
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]

https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines 
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3

* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
 
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format 
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
 
''bold''
 
**bold**
Italics Format 
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
 
'''italic'''
 
//italics//
Underline Format 
<u>underlined</u>
 
%%%underlined%%%
 
__underline__
Monospace Format 
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>



N/A
 
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format 
<strike>striked through</strike>
 
%%strikethrough%%
 
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format 
<sup>above</sup>
 
N/A
 
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format 
<sub>below</sub>
 
N/A
 
vvsubscriptvv
Images 
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image

#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
 
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text 
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>


CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
 
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation 
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 

N/A
 
one
two
Bulleted Lists 
* list
or
- list
 
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2

*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists 
# list
 
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
 
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break
Definition Lists 
Term:<def>
def
 
: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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