Wiki on a Stick vs. Hatta vs. WackoWiki vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features Wiki on a Stick Hatta WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Version
0.12.0
1.6.6
6.2.0
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2010-06-21 (15 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-24 (15 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
Author
legolas558
Radomir Dopieralski
WackoWiki Team
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv2
GPL v2
BSD
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
JavaScript
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
small + medium sites, development teams
System Requirements Wiki on a Stick Hatta WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Operating System
OS Independent (Browser Application)
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
OS Independent
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
JavaScript-capable browser
Mercurial
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage Wiki on a Stick Hatta WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Plugin
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Plugin
RCS
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
Self-modifying XHTML file, can export into XHTML and WSIF
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
MariaDB
no
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki on a Stick Hatta WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Supports per-page AES encryption
n/a
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Patch
Development/Support Wiki on a Stick Hatta WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wiki on a Stick Hatta WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki on a Stick Hatta WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Yes
Patch
Interface Languages
2
English, Italian
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Comments
No
No
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Patch
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Links Wiki on a Stick Hatta WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Wiki on a Stick Hatta WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
All
None
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
optional
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wiki on a Stick Hatta WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Yes
Yes
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
No
Statistics Wiki on a Stick Hatta WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Optional
Analysis
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Output Wiki on a Stick Hatta WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
No
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Patch
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Optional
PDF Export
No
No
Patch
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Wiki on a Stick Hatta WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras Wiki on a Stick Hatta WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Optional
No
Blogs
No
No
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiki on a Stick Hatta WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
[[WoaS test page]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
[[http://stickwiki.sf.net/|WoaS Official Website]]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
= Header 1
== Header 2
=== Header 3
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
*bold text*
**bold**
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
/italics text/
//italic//
//italics//
''ialic text''
Underline Format
_underlined text_
n/a
__underline__
optional or via css
Monospace Format
{{{this text will not render wiki syntax}}}
{{{verbatim}}}
##monospace##
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
n/a
--strikethrough--
optional or via css
Superscript Format
n/a
^^superscript^^
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
n/a
vvsubscriptvv
optional or via css
Images
[[Image::woas.png]]
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
n/a
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
optional or via css
Text Indentation
n/a
one
two
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
* list
** sublist
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
n/a
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Definition Lists
n/a
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Horizontal Rule
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