Roadkill vs. WikiNi vs. WackoWiki

General Features Roadkill WikiNi WackoWiki
Version
1.6
0.5.0
6.3.0
Last Release Date
27/04/2013
2007-04-12 (19 years ago)
2026-07-18 (3 months ago)
Last Update here
2013-04-25 (13 years ago)
2009-02-10 (17 years ago)
2026-07-18 (3 months ago)
Author
C.Small
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MS-PL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
C#
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small-mid sized teams, website wikis
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements Roadkill WikiNi WackoWiki
Operating System
Windows Server, Ubuntu
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
OS Independent
Root Access
Yes
No
No
Webserver
IIS, Apache
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
mono and mod_mono on Ubuntu
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Roadkill WikiNi WackoWiki
Text Files
Patch
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
SQL Server, MongoDB
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Roadkill WikiNi WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Database, Active Directory, custom if needed
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Unknown
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Optional
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Optional
Patch
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support Roadkill WikiNi WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features Roadkill WikiNi WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Roadkill WikiNi WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
3
Czech, English, Polish
1
French
34
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Plugin
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
No
Patch
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Unknown
Patch
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Plugin
Links Roadkill WikiNi WackoWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Roadkill WikiNi WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Unknown
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Patch
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
none
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Patch
Yes
Usability Roadkill WikiNi WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics Roadkill WikiNi WackoWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Output Roadkill WikiNi WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files Roadkill WikiNi WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Unknown
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Extras Roadkill WikiNi WackoWiki
Calendar
No
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Unknown
Optional
Blogs
No
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples Roadkill WikiNi WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[Pagename|linkname]]
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[[URL|linkname]]
[[ ]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
== Large heading
====== ====== level 1
===== ===== level 2
==== ==== level 3
=== === level 4
== == level 5

== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
** bold **
** **
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
// //
//italics//
Underline Format
_underline_
__ __
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{

monospace

}}
## ##
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
@@ @@
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
Images
{{Image.jpg.|title}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
[space] level 1
[space][space] level 2
[space][space][...] level X
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet List
** Sub item
-
-
-
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# Numbered list
## Sub item
1)
1)
1)
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
{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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