MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Version
1.32.2
6.1.25
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
family people, hackers
System Requirements MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Writable data directory
Datastorage MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
No
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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67 ⭐
Common Features MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Some
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional
actions (PHP)
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
No
Output MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
No
Media and Files MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Extras MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
Optional
No
Blogs
No
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
No
Syntax Examples MediaWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
no example known
Text Indentation
: indented line
one
two
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

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


Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
; term : definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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