WiGit vs. WackoWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. SubWiki

General Features WiGit WackoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki
Version
0.1
6.2.0
1.5.1
0.1-dev
Last Release Date
2008-07-21 (17 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2016-03-07 (9 years ago)
no official
Last Update here
2009-07-09 (16 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2016-03-23 (9 years ago)
2006-02-14 (19 years ago)
Author
Remko Tronçon
WackoWiki Team
PukiWiki Development Team
Greg Stein
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Academic Free License
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
other
Database
Files
RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Alpha
Intended Audience
Private users
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements WiGit WackoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
OS independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
Git
mod_rewrite (optional)
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage WiGit WackoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Other
Git repositories
MariaDB
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
No
Security/Anti-Spam WiGit WackoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Unknown
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Patch
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support WiGit WackoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
54 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WiGit WackoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
No
Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features WiGit WackoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
0
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
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
1
English
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
No
Flat
Plugin
No
Categories
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
No
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Links WiGit WackoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Patch
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Syntax Features WiGit WackoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Plugin
None
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
none
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
None
Content Includes
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Usability WiGit WackoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Patch
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Patch
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Statistics WiGit WackoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
Output WiGit WackoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
No
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Patch
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WiGit WackoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Media Revisions
No
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media Search
No
Contents
No
No
Extras WiGit WackoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Optional
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WiGit WackoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki
Internal Link
[InternalLink]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
"External link":http://externallink.com
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
h1. Headline
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
Bold Format
*Bold*
**bold**
''bold''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_Italics_
//italics//
'''italic'''
''italic''
Underline Format
+underlined+
__underline__
%%%underlined%%%
N/A
Monospace Format
@monospace@
##monospace##
N/A
{{monospaced}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
%%strikethrough%%
N/A
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
N/A
N/A
Subscript Format
~subscript~
vvsubscriptvv
N/A
N/A
Images
!image.jpg!
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
Aligning Text
>Right-aligned
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
N/A
Text Indentation
one
two
N/A
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Bulleted
* List
** Sublist
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Numbered
# List
## Sublist
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
# 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}
:term|definition
N/A
Horizontal Rule
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