Wicked vs. WackoWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features Wicked WackoWiki MediaWiki
Version
2.0.8
6.2.0
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
Author
The Horde Project
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements Wicked WackoWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Any
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Text_Wiki from PEAR
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage Wicked WackoWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
None
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam Wicked WackoWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
25 different backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support Wicked WackoWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
1 ⭐
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wicked WackoWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wicked WackoWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
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
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
No
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Links Wicked WackoWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wicked WackoWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Yes
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
No
actions (PHP)
Optional
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wicked WackoWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Optional
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wicked WackoWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Optional
Output Wicked WackoWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
No
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Wicked WackoWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Extras Wicked WackoWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
No
Optional
No
Ticket System
Optional
No
No
Chat
No
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wicked WackoWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
+ 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'''
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
@@+++ underline @@
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
@@--- strikethrough @@
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
one
two
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
{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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