Sputnik vs. PhpWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features Sputnik PhpWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Version
8.08.13
phpwiki-1.3.14
6.1.25
1.32.2
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2008-08-12 (15 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2024-04-11 (23 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-02-02 (15 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2024-04-11 (23 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
Yuri Takhteyev
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT/X
GPL
BSD
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Lua
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small teams or private users
Any
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
all
System Requirements Sputnik PhpWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, CGI, Xavante
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
gcc or Lua
various opt. helpers
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage Sputnik PhpWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Other
Git
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
MariaDB
No
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam Sputnik PhpWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Yes
Development/Support Sputnik PhpWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
Common Features Sputnik PhpWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Yes
Yes
Special Features Sputnik PhpWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
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
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comments
No
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links Sputnik PhpWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Sputnik PhpWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
No
Scripting
Lua, JavaScript
plugins, templates, PHP
actions (PHP)
Optional
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Usability Sputnik PhpWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics Sputnik PhpWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Output Sputnik PhpWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Patch
No
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Sputnik PhpWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Extras Sputnik PhpWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Sputnik PhpWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
[[Sputnik]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org)
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
# Sputnik
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.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>Centered</center>
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
> Sputnik
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
one
two
: indented line
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Sputnik
* list
or
- list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Sputnik
# list
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
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}
; term : definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
- - -
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