GWiki vs. Wiki.js vs. WackoWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features GWiki Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki
Version
2.4.0
2.5.299
6.1.25
2.3.33
Last Release Date
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2024-04-20 (27 days ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2024-04-21 (26 days ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Nicolas Giard
WackoWiki Team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
AGPL-v3
BSD
GPL2+
Programming Language
Java
Javascript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, Files, other, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Everyone
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
All
System Requirements GWiki Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
All
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
All
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
Node.js
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage GWiki Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Other
Google Datastore
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
MariaDB
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
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
No
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Optional
Development/Support GWiki Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
19117 ⭐
32 ⭐
N/A
Common Features GWiki Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features GWiki Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
2
German, English
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, 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
No
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Links GWiki Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features GWiki Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
JS, CSS
actions (PHP)
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability GWiki Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics GWiki Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Output GWiki Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Media and Files GWiki Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras GWiki Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Patch
No
Syntax Examples GWiki Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
**Bold Text**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_Italic format_
*Italic Text*
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
<u>Underline Text</u>
__underline__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
`Monospace Code`
##monospace##
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
~~Strikethrough Text~~
--strikethrough--
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
^Superscript Text^
^^superscript^^
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
~Subscript Text~
vvsubscriptvv
'_subscript_'
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
one
two
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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