WackoWiki vs. Wicked vs. WikkaWiki vs. WikyBlog

General Features WackoWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Version
6.2.1
2.0.8
1.4.2
1.5.4
Last Release Date
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2007-10-24 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-04-25 (1 month ago)
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2007-10-24 (18 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
The Horde Project
Wikka Development Team
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Private, Internet Communities
System Requirements WackoWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Operating System
OS Independent
Any
any (platform-independent)
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache, anything with PHP
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Text_Wiki from PEAR
mod_rewrite (optional)
MySQL
Datastorage WackoWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Text Files
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
MariaDB
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
25 different backends
Active Directory (patch)
No
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support WackoWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
54 ⭐
1 ⭐
42 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
No
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
0
5
English, French, Japanese, Turkish, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Comments
Flat
No
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
No
No
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Links WackoWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Features WackoWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
HTML Tags
All
None
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Patch
Yes
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
No
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
No
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
No
Usability WackoWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Statistics WackoWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Patch
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Output WackoWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
No
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
Patch
No
PDF Export
Patch
No
No
No
Office Export
Patch
No
No
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Media Search
Contents
No
No
No
Extras WackoWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Calendar
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
No
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Chat
Patch
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
@@+++ underline @@
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
##monospaced##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
@@--- strikethrough @@
++Strike through text++
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
one
two
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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