PukiWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features PukiWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
Version
1.5.1
6.1.29
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2016-03-07 (9 years ago)
2025-09-03 (2 months ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (9 years ago)
2025-10-13 (1 month ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
System Requirements PukiWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
OS independent
OS Independent
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
any server with PHP/MySQL support
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)
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage PukiWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
Patch
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Patch
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support PukiWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
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 WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Patch
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Patch
No
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Links PukiWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features PukiWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
actions (PHP)
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability PukiWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
Patch
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Patch
Statistics PukiWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Patch
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Output PukiWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Patch
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Patch
PDF Export
No
Patch
No
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
No
Media and Files PukiWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras PukiWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Optional
Optional
No
Blogs
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Optional
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
No
Syntax Examples PukiWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
'''italic'''
//italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
%%%underlined%%%
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
N/A
##monospace##
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
--strikethrough--
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
N/A
^^superscript^^
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
N/A
vvsubscriptvv
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
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
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
N/A
one
two
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
Numbered Lists
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
Definition Lists
:term|definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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