ikiwiki vs. Oddmuse vs. WackoWiki

General Features ikiwiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Version
2.67
2.3.13
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (28 days ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (28 days ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Alex Schroeder
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
family people, hackers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements ikiwiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Operating System
Any
Anything supported by Perl
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
Anything supporting CGI scripts
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage ikiwiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Other
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
None (use your web server instead)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Optional
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support ikiwiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features ikiwiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ikiwiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Links ikiwiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features ikiwiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Perl
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability ikiwiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Yes
Statistics ikiwiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Output ikiwiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
No
Patch
Media and Files ikiwiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Extras ikiwiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
Yes
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Patch
Syntax Examples ikiwiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[internal]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
vvsubscriptvv
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
no example known
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* one
** two
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
Depending on plugins:
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