Oddmuse vs. WikiNi vs. Instiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
Version
2.3.13
0.5.0
0.30.0
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2007-04-11 (17 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (18 days ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2009-02-09 (15 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (18 days ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
Ruby's
BSD
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
End Users/Desktop, Education
general, education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
Ruby 2.0-2.6
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
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
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
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
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
nofollow
No
No
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
67 ⭐
N/A
478 ⭐
32 ⭐
Common Features Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
French
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
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
No
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Patch
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Links Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
Perl
None
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Usability Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Patch
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
No
No
Plugin
Output Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
Contents
Extras Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Presentations
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Blogs
Optional
Unknown
No
Optional
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki WackoWiki
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
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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
[[ ]]
[another site](http://example.com)
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
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''
// //
_italic_, *italic*
//italics//
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__ __
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
__underline__
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]
@@ @@
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
no example known
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
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
[space] level 1
[space][space] level 2
[space][space][...] level X
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

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

# one
## two
1)
1)
1)
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
Depending on plugins:
; 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
Depending on plugins:
----
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***
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