WackoWiki vs. PBwiki

General Features WackoWiki PBwiki
Version
6.2.1
N/A
Last Release Date
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2026-04-25 (1 month ago)
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
PBworks
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
License
BSD
N/A
Programming Language
PHP
N/A
Data Storage
Database
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
Determined by Solution Needs
Development status
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Business Enterprises
Hosting Features WackoWiki PBwiki
Storage Quota
N/A
No limit
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
No limit
Other Limits
N/A
None
Topic Restrictions
N/A
None
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
System Requirements WackoWiki PBwiki
Operating System
OS Independent
N/A
Root Access
No
N/A
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
N/A
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
N/A
Datastorage WackoWiki PBwiki
Text Files
No
N/A
MySQL
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
Oracle
No
N/A
SQLite
Yes
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
RCS
No
N/A
Other
MariaDB
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki PBwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
N/A
Host Blocking
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support WackoWiki PBwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki PBwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki PBwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
N/A
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Links WackoWiki PBwiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features WackoWiki PBwiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Usability WackoWiki PBwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Statistics WackoWiki PBwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Output WackoWiki PBwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Patch
Yes
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki PBwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Extras WackoWiki PBwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Chat
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki PBwiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.externallink.com]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<code>monospace</code>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<left>, <center>, <right>
Text Indentation
one
two
Indented block
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Number #1
# Number #2
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
<dl>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
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