Wiki CSharp .NET vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki
Version
0.4.2
1.32.2
6.2.0
Last Release Date
2009-12-31 (16 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-07 (15 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
Author
Pier-Luc Duchaine
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL V3
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, small and big team
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Windows
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Links Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
Scripting
Optional
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Usability Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Output Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Extras Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Unknown
No
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
*Bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
=Italic=
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
_Underline_
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
[|Monospace formate|]
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
-Strike-
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
[$Image file$]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
: indented line
one
two
Bulleted Lists
-list1
--list2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
#list1
##list2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
; term : definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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