Sputnik vs. ikiwiki vs. WackoWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features Sputnik ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Version
8.08.13
2.67
6.2.1
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (8 days ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (8 days ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
Author
Yuri Takhteyev
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT/X
GPL
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Lua
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small teams or private users
Anyone
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements Sputnik ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
Any
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, CGI, Xavante
Any, or none
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
gcc or Lua
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage Sputnik ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
Git
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam Sputnik ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Yes
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support Sputnik ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
56 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Sputnik ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
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
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Sputnik ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
1
English
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
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Links Sputnik ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Sputnik ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Lua, JavaScript
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
actions (PHP)
Optional
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability Sputnik ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Optional
Toolbar
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Sputnik ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Output Sputnik ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Sputnik ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Extras Sputnik ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
No
Yes
Optional
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Sputnik ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[Sputnik]]
[[internal]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org)
[link text](http://example.org)
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
# Sputnik
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
> Sputnik
one
two
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Sputnik
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Sputnik
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
- - -
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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