MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Instiki

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

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

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


1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
{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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