Drupal Wiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features Drupal Wiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Version
8.26
1.32.2
6.1.25
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.3.32
Last Release Date
2023-05-31 (10 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (9 days ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2024-03-23 (28 days ago)
Last Update here
2023-06-05 (10 months ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (9 days ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2024-03-24 (27 days ago)
Author
https://kontextwork.de
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
GPL
BSD
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Different licences
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Any
All
Hosting Features Drupal Wiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Drupal Wiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, nginx
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
various opt. helpers
none
Datastorage Drupal Wiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
No
MariaDB
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Drupal Wiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
No
Optional
Development/Support Drupal Wiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Drupal Wiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Drupal Wiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
2
German, 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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Links Drupal Wiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Drupal Wiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Widgets
Optional
actions (PHP)
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Drupal Wiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Drupal Wiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output Drupal Wiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
No
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Drupal Wiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras Drupal Wiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Drupal Wiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
Italics Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
''italic''
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
Underline Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
: indented line
one
two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
; term : definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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