PmWiki vs. LynxWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. LionWiki

General Features PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
Version
2.5.3
1.3.0.0
6.1.29
3.2.4
Last Release Date
2025-11-08 (28 days ago)
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
2025-09-03 (3 months ago)
2010-09-20 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-11-08 (28 days ago)
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
2025-10-13 (1 month ago)
2010-10-01 (15 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
J.W. Davidson
WackoWiki Team
Adam Živnéř
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
Apache License 2.0
BSD
GPL v2
Programming Language
PHP
C#
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
small organization to enterprise
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
advanced users, minimalists
System Requirements PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows
OS Independent
All PHP supported
Root Access
No
Yes
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
IIS7 or IIS8
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
Other Requirements
none
IronPython
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
MS Membership and Roles
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
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
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
No
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Patch
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Links PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
None
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
IronPython
actions (PHP)
JavaScript (plugin)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Optional
No
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Output PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
No
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
No
Extras PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_
//italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
+underlined+
__underline__
'__underline__'
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
'--strikethrough--'
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
superscript^234^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
water: H~2~O
vvsubscriptvv
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[path_to_img.jpg]
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
N/A
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* first bullet (8 spaces)
* first sub item bullet
* second item
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. first numbered item
1. second item
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
Definition Lists
: term : definition
N/A
{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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