WikiASP vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki
Version
1.6.2
1.32.2
6.2.0
Last Release Date
2005-10-13 (20 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2025-12-14 (2 months ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-26 (19 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2025-12-13 (2 months ago)
Author
Elrey Ronald V.
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
FREE
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
ASP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Windows
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
No
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
No
Oracle
Unknown
Yes
No
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
No
Other
MS Access DB
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support WikiASP 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 WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
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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
No
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Links WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
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
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
Scripting
Optional
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Output WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Patch
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
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 WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
Extras WikiASP 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 WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com]
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
'''BoldFormat'''

{bold}BoldFormat{/b}
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''The quotation''
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<space char here>This is mono
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
_This is Strike Through_
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
image:http://wite/image/icon.jpg

image:local:icon.jpg
[[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
>Indent 1
>>Indent2
: indented line
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Test
* Bullets
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
1. Test Numeer
1. Test Two

# 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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