Oddmuse vs. WackoWiki vs. Instiki vs. WikiNi

General Features Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki WikiNi
Version
2.3.13
6.1.25
0.30.0
0.5.0
Last Release Date
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2007-04-11 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2009-02-09 (15 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
WackoWiki Team
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
Ruby's
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Ruby on Rails
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
general, education
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki WikiNi
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
mod_rewrite (optional)
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Datastorage Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki WikiNi
Text Files
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
No
MariaDB
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki WikiNi
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki WikiNi
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
67 ⭐
32 ⭐
478 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki WikiNi
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki WikiNi
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
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
1
English
1
French
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
No
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
No
Patch
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Links Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki WikiNi
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki WikiNi
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
Perl
actions (PHP)
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Usability Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki WikiNi
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
No
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki WikiNi
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
Output Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki WikiNi
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
No
Plugin
Office Export
No
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki WikiNi
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
No
Extras Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki WikiNi
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
Optional
No
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
No
Unknown
Chat
No
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Oddmuse WackoWiki Instiki WikiNi
Internal Link
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
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
External Link
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]]
[another site](http://example.com)
[[ ]]
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
====== ====== level 1
===== ===== level 2
==== ==== level 3
=== === level 4
== == level 5

Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
** **
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
_italic_, *italic*
// //
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
__ __
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
##monospace##
`monospace`
## ##
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
@@ @@
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
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
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
Aligning Text
no example known
{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
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
one
two
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
[space] level 1
[space][space] level 2
[space][space][...] level X
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
-
-
-
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

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


1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
1)
1)
1)
Definition Lists
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}
term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
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