Wala Wiki vs. WackoWiki vs. ProWiki

General Features Wala Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki
Version
1.1.7
6.2.0
2.0.045
Last Release Date
March, 2007
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-03-28 (18 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
Author
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
WackoWiki Team
Helmut Leitner
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
System Requirements Wala Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki
Operating System
Linux, *BSD
OS Independent
Unix / Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any that supports basic CGI.
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Other Requirements
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage Wala Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Other
diffs
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Wala Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support Wala Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wala Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Special Features Wala Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
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
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Flat
No
Categories
Optional
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Links Wala Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wala Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Usability Wala Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wala Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Output Wala Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Patch
No
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Wala Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras Wala Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Optional
No
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wala Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki
Internal Link
LinkDump, [link dump]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
External Link
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
Headlines
= headline =
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
Bold Format
'''bolded'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italicized''
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
monospaced.
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
[[strike]strikethrough text]
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>text</sup>
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>text</sub>
Images
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
Text Indentation
:Block-quoted text.
one
two
: indented line
:: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
# Three
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# numbered list
## numbered list
Definition Lists
{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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