PhpWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features PhpWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
6.1.25
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2020-04-19 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2020-04-20 (4 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
WackoWiki Team
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
System Requirements PhpWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
mod_rewrite (optional)
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage PhpWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support PhpWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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42 ⭐
Common Features PhpWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Special Features PhpWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Patch
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
No
Structured Data
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Links PhpWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features PhpWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
actions (PHP)
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability PhpWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Patch
Statistics PhpWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Patch
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Patch
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output PhpWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Patch
PDF Export
Yes
Patch
No
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
No
Media and Files PhpWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras PhpWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Yes
Optional
No
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
No
Syntax Examples PhpWiki WackoWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link 
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
 
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
 
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link 
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
 
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
 
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines 
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3

== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
 
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format 
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
 
**bold**
 
**bold**
Italics Format 
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
 
//italics//
 
//italic//
Underline Format 
<u>underlined</u>
 
__underline__
 
__underlined__
Monospace Format 
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>



##monospace##
 
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format 
<strike>striked through</strike>
 
--strikethrough--
 
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format 
<sup>above</sup>
 
^^superscript^^
 
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format 
<sub>below</sub>
 
vvsubscriptvv
 
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images 
[ 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
 
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text 
<?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 text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation 
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 

one
two
 
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists 
* list
or
- list
 
*one
**One-two
*two
*three

(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
Numbered Lists 
# list
 
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break



(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
Definition Lists 
Term:<def>
def
 
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
 
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule 
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