| General Features | WackoWiki | Zim | ButorWiki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
6.2.1
|
0.56
|
2.2.1
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1.32.2
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| Last Release Date |
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
|
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
|
2007-03-09 (19 years ago)
|
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
|
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
|
2007-07-30 (18 years ago)
|
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
|
| Author |
WackoWiki Team
|
Jaap Karssenberg
|
Aiman Sawan
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
BSD
|
GPL
|
LGPL
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Python
|
Java
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
Private users, small teams
|
SMB
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
| System Requirements | WackoWiki | Zim | ButorWiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
OS Independent
|
Linux, Windows, OSX
|
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
None
|
Any webserver
|
Any with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
|
Tomcat 4.1 +
|
none
|
| Datastorage | WackoWiki | Zim | ButorWiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
MariaDB
|
Text Files with index in SQLite
|
No
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | WackoWiki | Zim | ButorWiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
File permissions
|
None
|
Yes
|
| Host Blocking |
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Development/Support | WackoWiki | Zim | ButorWiki | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
55 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | WackoWiki | Zim | ButorWiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
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
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | WackoWiki | Zim | ButorWiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| 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 |
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
1
English |
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
|
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
No
|
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Links | WackoWiki | Zim | ButorWiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | WackoWiki | Zim | ButorWiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
None
|
All
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
none
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
actions (PHP)
|
None
|
Internal Macros
|
Optional
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | WackoWiki | Zim | ButorWiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | WackoWiki | Zim | ButorWiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Output | WackoWiki | Zim | ButorWiki | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
No
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Patch
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | WackoWiki | Zim | ButorWiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
Keywords
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | WackoWiki | Zim | ButorWiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Chat |
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | WackoWiki | Zim | ButorWiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage |
<a href="..."></a> |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org ftp://somehost/share \\host\share\.. |
<a href="..."></a> |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
=== Heading === |
<h1>Header 1</h1> <h2>Header 2</h2> ... |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
**bold** |
<b>Bold</b> |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
//italic// |
<i>Italics</i> |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
__underline__ |
<u>Underline</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
##monospace## |
``monospace`` |
|
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
--strikethrough-- |
~~strike~~ |
|
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript^^ |
^{sup} |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
,,subscript,, |
_{sub} |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
{{./image.png}} |
|
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
not implemented |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
one two |
indent with tabs |
|
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
*one **One-two *two *three |
* List item * sub items * with indent |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
1. List item a. with sub items b. ... |
|
# 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} |
not implemented |
|
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
not implemented |
|
---- |
| remove WackoWiki | remove Zim | remove ButorWiki | remove MediaWiki |