| General Features | Wala Wiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.1.7
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2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
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6.2.0
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1.32.2
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| Last Release Date |
March, 2007
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2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
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2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
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2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2007-03-28 (18 years ago)
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2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
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2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
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2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
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| Author |
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
|
Andreas Gohr
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WackoWiki Team
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
Public Domain
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GPL 2
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BSD
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
Perl
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PHP
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PHP
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PHP
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| Data Storage |
Files
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Files
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Database
|
Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
Free
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0
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
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personal, small to medium companies
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Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
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End Users/Desktop, Education
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| System Requirements | Wala Wiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, *BSD
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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OS Independent
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*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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| Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Any that supports basic CGI.
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Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
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run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
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Any with PHP support
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| Other Requirements |
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
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mod_rewrite (optional)
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none
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| Datastorage | Wala Wiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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| MySQL |
No
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No
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Yes
|
Yes
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| PostgreSQL |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
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| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
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| SQLite |
No
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No
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Yes
|
Yes
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| RCS |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| Other |
diffs
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None
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MariaDB
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No
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| Security/Anti-Spam | Wala Wiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| ACL |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| Authentication Backends |
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
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Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
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LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
Yes
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| Host Blocking |
No
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Plugin
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Optional
|
Yes
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| Mail Encryption |
No
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Optional
|
Optional
|
Plugin
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| nofollow |
Yes
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Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
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| Blacklist |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
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Yes
|
Plugin
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| Delayed Indexing |
No
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Optional
|
No
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No
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| Development/Support | Wala Wiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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4526 ⭐
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54 ⭐
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N/A
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| Common Features | Wala Wiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Minor Changes |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Change Summary |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Page History |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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| Revision Diffs |
To current
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Between all
|
Between all
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Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Special Features | Wala Wiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Right-to-Left Support |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Interface Languages |
1
English |
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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 |
| Email notification |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
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Optional
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| Comments |
Flat
|
Plugin
|
Flat
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Discussion Pages
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| Categories |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
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Page Locking
|
Page Locking
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Conflict Resolution
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| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
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Unknown
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| Search |
Not available
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
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| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
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| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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| Links | Wala Wiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
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| Freelinks |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Unknown
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Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Syntax Features | Wala Wiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
None
|
Optional
|
All
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
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| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
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| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Internal Comments |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
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| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
actions (PHP)
|
Optional
|
|
| Content Includes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | Wala Wiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Wala Wiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Output | Wala Wiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Wala Wiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | Wala Wiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Wala Wiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
LinkDump, [link dump] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
= headline = |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
'''bolded''' |
**bold** |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
''italicized'' |
//italics// |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
|
__underlined__ |
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
monospaced. |
''monospace'' |
##monospace## |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
<del>strikethrough</del> |
--strikethrough-- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
vvsubscriptvv |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include. |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
|
Plugin |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
:Block-quoted text. |
N/A |
one two |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Bullet point * Bullet point |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
*one **One-two *two *three |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# One # Two # Three |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
Plugin |
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html} |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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