PageWork vs. PhpWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Wicked vs. MediaWiki

General Features PageWork PhpWiki WackoWiki Wicked MediaWiki
Version
0.4.8
phpwiki-1.3.14
6.1.25
2.0.8
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2024-04-11 (27 days ago)
2017-09-20 (6 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2024-04-11 (27 days ago)
2018-10-15 (5 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Pitt Murmann
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
WackoWiki Team
The Horde Project
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
GPL
BSD
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
none
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Medium-sized sites
Any
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements PageWork PhpWiki WackoWiki Wicked MediaWiki
Operating System
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
various opt. helpers
mod_rewrite (optional)
Text_Wiki from PEAR
none
Datastorage PageWork PhpWiki WackoWiki Wicked MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
MariaDB
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam PageWork PhpWiki WackoWiki Wicked MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Proprietary
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
25 different backends
Yes
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
No
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
No
No
Development/Support PageWork PhpWiki WackoWiki Wicked MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
32 ⭐
1 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PageWork PhpWiki WackoWiki Wicked MediaWiki
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
No
Yes
Special Features PageWork PhpWiki WackoWiki Wicked MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
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
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Patch
Plugin
No
Plugin
Links PageWork PhpWiki WackoWiki Wicked MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features PageWork PhpWiki WackoWiki Wicked MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
None
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Yes
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
actions (PHP)
No
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability PageWork PhpWiki WackoWiki Wicked MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics PageWork PhpWiki WackoWiki Wicked MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Output PageWork PhpWiki WackoWiki Wicked MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Patch
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
Patch
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
No
Unknown
Media and Files PageWork PhpWiki WackoWiki Wicked MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
No
Keywords
Extras PageWork PhpWiki WackoWiki Wicked MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Optional
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PageWork PhpWiki WackoWiki Wicked MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
This is __underlined__.
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
@@+++ underline @@
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
This is %%monospaced%%.
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


##monospace##
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
This is --not-- important.
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strikethrough--
@@--- strikethrough @@
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
<sub>below</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
{{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>

{html}<div align="right">{html}

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

or 
paragraph
and another level 
one
two
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* list
or
- list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
# list
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Term:<def>
def
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
----
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