PhpWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Wikepage vs. wxWikiServer

General Features PhpWiki WackoWiki Wikepage wxWikiServer
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
6.2.1
2008.1
1.5.11c
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2026-03-03 (30 days ago)
2008-10-14 (17 years ago)
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2026-03-03 (30 days ago)
2008-10-24 (17 years ago)
2006-02-07 (20 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
WackoWiki Team
Jose Carlos Medeiros
Ryan Norton
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
C++
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
NA
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Private users, small groups
End users/Desktop
System Requirements PhpWiki WackoWiki Wikepage wxWikiServer
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Platform Independent
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Server Independent
built-in
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
mod_rewrite (optional)
n/a
None
Datastorage PhpWiki WackoWiki Wikepage wxWikiServer
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki WackoWiki Wikepage wxWikiServer
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
unknown
Host Blocking
No
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Unknown
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support PhpWiki WackoWiki Wikepage wxWikiServer
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features PhpWiki WackoWiki Wikepage wxWikiServer
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
No
Special Features PhpWiki WackoWiki Wikepage wxWikiServer
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
30
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
0
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
No
No
Comments
Plugin
Flat
No
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Links PhpWiki WackoWiki Wikepage wxWikiServer
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features PhpWiki WackoWiki Wikepage wxWikiServer
HTML Tags
Some
All
None
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
actions (PHP)
no
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability PhpWiki WackoWiki Wikepage wxWikiServer
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Statistics PhpWiki WackoWiki Wikepage wxWikiServer
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output PhpWiki WackoWiki Wikepage wxWikiServer
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
No
No
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Patch
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
Patch
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PhpWiki WackoWiki Wikepage wxWikiServer
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
No
Extras PhpWiki WackoWiki Wikepage wxWikiServer
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Optional
No
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Optional
No
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PhpWiki WackoWiki Wikepage wxWikiServer
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[Link_type]
[http://externallink.com]
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://externallink.com/|click]
[http://externallink.com/|picture.gif]
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Biggest
!! Smaller
!!! Smallest
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
**Bold**
''' bold text '''
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
''Italic''
'' italic text ''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__Underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


##monospace##
With a space in front of the text
start line with blank space.
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strikethrough--
n/a
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
n/a
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
n/a
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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[image.gif]
[http://externalimage.com/image.gif]
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
n/a
] centred text
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
one
two
n/a
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Bullet1
* Bullet2
* one
* two
* two.1
Numbered Lists
# list
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


n/a
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
{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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