PukiWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features PukiWiki WackoWiki
Version
1.5.1
6.2.0
Last Release Date
2016-03-07 (9 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (9 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements PukiWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
OS independent
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
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 PukiWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
No
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Patch
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Patch
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support PukiWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features PukiWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Categories
No
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Patch
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Links PukiWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Syntax Features PukiWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Usability PukiWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Patch
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Statistics PukiWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Output PukiWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files PukiWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Extras PukiWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Optional
Optional
Blogs
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
Optional
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples PukiWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link 
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
 
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link 
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]

https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines 
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
 
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format 
''bold''
 
**bold**
Italics Format 
'''italic'''
 
//italics//
Underline Format 
%%%underlined%%%
 
__underline__
Monospace Format 
N/A
 
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format 
%%strikethrough%%
 
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format 
N/A
 
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format 
N/A
 
vvsubscriptvv
Images 
#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 
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
 
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation 
N/A
 
one
two
Bulleted Lists 
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2

*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists 
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
 
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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