Wiki-Toolkit vs. WackoWiki vs. Wiclear vs. PukiWiki

General Features Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
Version
0.72
6.3.0
1.0
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2006-08-31 (19 years ago)
2026-07-18 (9 days ago)
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-12-05 (19 years ago)
2026-07-18 (9 days ago)
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
Dominic Hargreaves
WackoWiki Team
David Jobet
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL/Artistic
BSD
GPL2
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Wiki Developers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
private users
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
Operating System
Anything that runs Perl
OS Independent
All
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything with CGI support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
MySql
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
MariaDB
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Plugin Interface
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki-toolkit on irc.perl.org
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
Preview
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
0
34
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Links Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Patch
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Syntax Features Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Not at the moment
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Patch
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Statistics Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Output Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Unknown
Patch
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
No
No
XML export
Unknown
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Patch
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
No
Extras Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Unknown
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[Title]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[Title|http://url.to/]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
''bold''
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
'''italic'''
Underline Format
__underline__
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
##monospace##
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
N/A
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
N/A
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
N/A
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
one
two
N/A
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
+ 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}
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
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