| General Features | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | ProWiki | LynxWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
6.1.29
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2.67
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2.0.045
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1.3.0.0
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| Last Release Date |
2025-09-03 (2 months ago)
|
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
|
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
|
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2025-10-13 (1 month ago)
|
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
|
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
|
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
|
| Author |
WackoWiki Team
|
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
|
Helmut Leitner
|
J.W. Davidson
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
BSD
|
GPL
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GPL
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Apache License 2.0
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Perl
|
Perl
|
C#
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
Database, Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
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$0
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| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
Anyone
|
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
|
small organization to enterprise
|
| System Requirements | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | ProWiki | LynxWiki |
| Operating System |
OS Independent
|
Any
|
Unix / Linux
|
Windows
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Webserver |
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
Any, or none
|
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
|
IIS7 or IIS8
|
| Other Requirements |
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
none
|
IronPython
|
|
| Datastorage | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | ProWiki | LynxWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
MariaDB
|
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
|
||
| Security/Anti-Spam | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | ProWiki | LynxWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
|
MS Membership and Roles
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | ProWiki | LynxWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
54 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | ProWiki | LynxWiki |
| 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
|
No
|
No
|
| Special Features | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | ProWiki | LynxWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
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 |
1
English |
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian |
1
English |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
No
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
None
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Links | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | ProWiki | LynxWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | ProWiki | LynxWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Optional
|
Some
|
None
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
actions (PHP)
|
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
|
IronPython
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Usability | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | ProWiki | LynxWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | ProWiki | LynxWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Output | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | ProWiki | LynxWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Patch
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | ProWiki | LynxWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
Contents
|
| Extras | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | ProWiki | LynxWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Chat |
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | WackoWiki | ikiwiki | ProWiki | LynxWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
[[internal]] |
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink] |
CamelCase "display text":DisplayText |
| External Link |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
[link text](http://example.org) |
http://example.org InterWiki:page [some:link labelforlink] |
http://www.wikimatrix.org "Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org "this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com |
| Headlines |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
Two syntaxes: # heading 1 ## heading 2 ### heading 3 heading 1 ========= heading 2 --------- |
= Headline 1 = == Headline 2 = === Headline 3 = ==== Headline 4 = ===== Headline 5 = ====== Headline 6 = |
!!Header 2 !!!Header 3 !!!!!!Header 6 |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
**bold** __bold__ |
'''bold''' |
*bold* '''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
''italic'' |
_italics_ |
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
+underlined+ |
| Monospace Format |
##monospace## |
`inline monospace` indented block of monospaced text tab-indented block |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
[indent single space] @mono space on single line@ @@ start on multiline with end @@ |
| Strikethrough Format |
--strikethrough-- |
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
[[strike]strikethrough text] |
-strikethrough- |
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript^^ |
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
<sup>text</sup> |
superscript^234^ |
| Subscript Format |
vvsubscriptvv |
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
<sub>text</sub> |
water: H~2~O |
| Images |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
  |
http://example.org/file.jpg Upload:file.gif [[Image]...options...] |
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg] http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg |
| Aligning Text |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
|
only as part of tables or citations [align:left|center|right] |
N/A |
| Text Indentation |
one two |
|
: indented line :: indented line |
N/A |
| Bulleted Lists |
*one **One-two *two *three |
* item 1 * item 2 * item 2.1 * item 2.2 |
* bulleted list ** bulleted list |
* first bullet (8 spaces) * first sub item bullet * second item |
| Numbered Lists |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
1. item 1 2. item 2 1. item 1.1 42. the value doesn't matter 1. any value works |
# numbered list ## numbered list |
1. first numbered item 1. second item |
| Definition Lists |
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html} |
via HTML: <dl> <dt>term</dt> <dd>definition</dd> </dl> |
; term: definition |
N/A |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
--- *** ___ ------------------ Any number > 3 - - - - - - - - - - spaces don't matter |
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