| General Features | Wikidot | ikiwiki | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.67
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8.08.13
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6.2.1
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| Last Release Date |
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
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2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
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2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
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| Last Update here |
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
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2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
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2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
|
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
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| Author |
Michal Frackowiak
|
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
|
Yuri Takhteyev
|
WackoWiki Team
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
AGPLv3
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GPL
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MIT/X
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BSD
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| Programming Language |
Perl
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Lua
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PHP
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| Data Storage |
Database
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Files, RCS
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Database, Files, RCS
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Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
|
0
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
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Anyone
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Small teams or private users
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Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
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| Hosting Features | Wikidot | ikiwiki | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| Storage Quota |
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Bandwidth Quota |
no limit
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Other Limits |
max uploaded file size limit
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Topic Restrictions |
by Terms Of Service
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Corporate Branding |
Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Own Domain |
Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Ads allowed |
Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| System Requirements | Wikidot | ikiwiki | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| Operating System |
Any
|
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
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OS Independent
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| Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Any, or none
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Apache, CGI, Xavante
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
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| Other Requirements |
gcc or Lua
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mod_rewrite (optional)
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| Datastorage | Wikidot | ikiwiki | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| Text Files |
Unknown
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| MySQL |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
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Yes
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| PostgreSQL |
Yes
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No
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No
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No
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| Oracle |
Unknown
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No
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No
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No
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| SQLite |
Unknown
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No
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Plugin
|
Yes
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| BerkeleyDB |
Unknown
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No
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No
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No
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| RCS |
Unknown
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Yes
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No
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No
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| Other |
Git
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MariaDB
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| Security/Anti-Spam | Wikidot | ikiwiki | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| ACL |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Authentication Backends |
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
|
Yes
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LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
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| Host Blocking |
Yes
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Yes
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No
|
Optional
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| Mail Encryption |
No
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Yes
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No
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Optional
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| nofollow |
Yes
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No
|
No
|
Optional
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| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| CAPTCHA |
Yes
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No
|
Yes
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Yes
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| Delayed Indexing |
Yes
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No
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No
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No
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| Development/Support | Wikidot | ikiwiki | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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55 ⭐
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| Common Features | Wikidot | ikiwiki | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Minor Changes |
Yes
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No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
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Unlimited
|
Unlimited
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Unlimited
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| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
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Between all
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Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Plugin System |
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Special Features | Wikidot | ikiwiki | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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| Interface Languages |
2
English, Polish |
1
English |
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian |
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 |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Comments |
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
No
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
None
|
Page Locking
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| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Links | Wikidot | ikiwiki | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
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| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
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| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
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| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Windows Shares |
No
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Yes
|
No
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Yes
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| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
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Yes
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| Syntax Features | Wikidot | ikiwiki | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| HTML Tags |
None
|
Optional
|
Some
|
All
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| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Markdown Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
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| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| FAQ Tags |
No
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Yes
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No
|
No
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| Scripting |
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
|
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
|
Lua, JavaScript
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actions (PHP)
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| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
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| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
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| Usability | Wikidot | ikiwiki | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
No
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Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
No
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Yes
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| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
No
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Yes
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| Statistics | Wikidot | ikiwiki | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
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| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
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| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
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| Output | Wikidot | ikiwiki | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
No
|
Print View
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| Mobile Friendly |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| Media and Files | Wikidot | ikiwiki | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
Contents
|
| Extras | Wikidot | ikiwiki | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| Calendar |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| Syntax Examples | Wikidot | ikiwiki | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[[page-name]]] or [[[page-name|anchor]]] |
[[internal]] |
[[Sputnik]] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
| External Link |
http://www.wikimatrix.org or [http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix] |
[link text](http://example.org) |
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org) |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
| Headlines |
+++ headline level 3 |
Two syntaxes: # heading 1 ## heading 2 ### heading 3 heading 1 ========= heading 2 --------- |
# Sputnik |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
| Bold Format |
**bold text** |
**bold** __bold__ |
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__ |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
//italic text// |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_ |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
__underlined text__ |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
|
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
{{monospaced text}} |
`inline monospace` indented block of monospaced text tab-indented block |
|
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
--strikethrough text-- |
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
|
--strikethrough-- |
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript^^ |
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
|
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
,,subscript,, |
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
|
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
[[image src="..."]] |
  |
|
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
| Aligning Text |
= Centered line |
|
|
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
| Text Indentation |
> First level of indentation >> Second level of indentation. |
|
> Sputnik |
one two |
| Bulleted Lists |
* element 1 * element 2 |
* item 1 * item 2 * item 2.1 * item 2.2 |
* Sputnik |
*one **One-two *two *three |
| Numbered Lists |
# element 1 # element 1 |
1. item 1 2. item 2 1. item 1.1 42. the value doesn't matter 1. any value works |
1. Sputnik |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
| Definition Lists |
: item : description |
via HTML: <dl> <dt>term</dt> <dd>definition</dd> </dl> |
|
{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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--- *** ___ ------------------ Any number > 3 - - - - - - - - - - spaces don't matter |
- - - |
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| remove Wikidot | remove ikiwiki | remove Sputnik | remove WackoWiki |