MediaWiki vs. Instiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features MediaWiki Instiki WackoWiki
Version
1.32.2
0.30.0
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (22 days ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (22 days ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Ruby's
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Ruby on Rails
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
general, education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements MediaWiki Instiki WackoWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
none
Ruby 2.0-2.6
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage MediaWiki Instiki WackoWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
Plugin
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
No
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki Instiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support MediaWiki Instiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
478 ⭐
32 ⭐
Common Features MediaWiki Instiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki Instiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
1
English
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
No
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Plugin
Links MediaWiki Instiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki Instiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional
None
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability MediaWiki Instiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki Instiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Optional
No
Plugin
Output MediaWiki Instiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files MediaWiki Instiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras MediaWiki Instiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Optional
Blogs
No
No
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples MediaWiki Instiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[another site](http://example.com)
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_, *italic*
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospace`
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
: indented line
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
; term : definition
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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