| General Features | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
6.2.1
|
1.32.2
|
1.2.101
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| Last Release Date |
2026-03-03 (13 days ago)
|
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
|
2006-06-15 (19 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-03-03 (13 days ago)
|
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
|
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
|
| Author |
WackoWiki Team
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Raymond Camden
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
BSD
|
GPL
|
Apache
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
ColdFusion
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Mildly technical
|
| System Requirements | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki |
| Operating System |
OS Independent
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Windows, Linux, Solaris
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
Any with PHP support
|
Apache, IIS
|
| Other Requirements |
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
none
|
ColdFusion MX
|
| Datastorage | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Other |
MariaDB
|
No
|
Access, SQL Server
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
Yes
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Development/Support | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
56 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Interface Languages |
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 |
0
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| Email notification |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
|
| Wiki Farming |
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Links | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Some
|
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| BBCode Support |
Patch
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Scripting |
actions (PHP)
|
Optional
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Usability | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Statistics | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Output | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Abbreviations |
Patch
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| PDF Export |
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Office Export |
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Keywords
|
|
| Extras | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
|
| External Link |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
|
| Headlines |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
|
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
|
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
|
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
|
| Monospace Format |
##monospace## |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
|
| Strikethrough Format |
--strikethrough-- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
|
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
| Subscript Format |
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
| Images |
((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 |
one two |
: indented line |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
*one **One-two *two *three |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
|
| Numbered Lists |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
|
| Definition Lists |
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html} |
; term : definition |
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