MediaWiki vs. PageWork vs. PhpWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. WackoWiki

General Features MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Version
1.32.2
0.4.8
phpwiki-1.3.14
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2023-11-15 (6 months ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2024-04-01 (1 month ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Pitt Murmann
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Tiki Software Community Association
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPLv3
GPL
LGPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
none
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Medium-sized sites
Any
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Any
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Works on standard shared hosting
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
none
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
various opt. helpers
None
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Patch
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
No
Other
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
MariaDB
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Proprietary
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
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 MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
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
2
German, English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, 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
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Links MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Patch
Media and Files MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Keywords
No
Contents
Contents
Extras MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Syntax Examples MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
'''bold'''
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
This is __underlined__.
<u>underlined</u>
===underline===
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
This is %%monospaced%%.
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


-+monospace+-
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
This is --not-- important.
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strike--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
<sup>above</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
<sub>below</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
vvsubscriptvv
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
[ 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
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

::centered text::
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
: indented line
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
leading spaces, if activated.
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
; term : definition
: term : definition
Term:<def>
def
;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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