Wiki CSharp .NET vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. PageWork

General Features Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Version
0.4.2
1.32.2
6.2.0
0.4.8
Last Release Date
2009-12-31 (16 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2010-07-20 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-07 (15 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
Author
Pier-Luc Duchaine
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Pitt Murmann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL V3
GPL
BSD
GPLv3
Programming Language
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
none
Development status
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, small and big team
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Medium-sized sites
System Requirements Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Operating System
Windows
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Proprietary
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
Development/Support Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
2
German, English
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
CamelCase
No
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
Output Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Keywords
Extras Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Internal Link
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
External Link
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
Headlines
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
Bold Format
*Bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
Italics Format
=Italic=
''italic''
//italics//
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
Underline Format
_Underline_
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
[|Monospace formate|]
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
-Strike-
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
[$Image file$]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
: indented line
one
two
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
-list1
--list2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* 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


# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
Definition Lists
; term : definition
{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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