WackoWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features WackoWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
Version
6.1.25
1.32.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2020-04-19 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2020-04-20 (4 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
System Requirements WackoWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
various opt. helpers
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage WackoWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
Other
MariaDB
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support WackoWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
42 ⭐
Common Features WackoWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Patch
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Links WackoWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features WackoWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability WackoWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Statistics WackoWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Output WackoWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Patch
No
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files WackoWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
No
No
Extras WackoWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Blogs
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
No
No
Chat
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples WackoWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[ 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
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
one
two
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

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


# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# list
(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
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term : definition
Term:<def>
def
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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