WackoWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WikyBlog

General Features WackoWiki MediaWiki WikyBlog
Version
6.1.25
1.32.2
1.5.4
Last Release Date
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2007-10-23 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2007-10-24 (16 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
Private, Internet Communities
System Requirements WackoWiki MediaWiki WikyBlog
Operating System
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any with PHP support
Apache, anything with PHP
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
MySQL
Datastorage WackoWiki MediaWiki WikyBlog
Text Files
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki MediaWiki WikyBlog
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
No
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support WackoWiki MediaWiki WikyBlog
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki MediaWiki WikyBlog
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 WackoWiki MediaWiki WikyBlog
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
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
5
English, French, Japanese, Turkish, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
No
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links WackoWiki MediaWiki WikyBlog
CamelCase
Optional
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features WackoWiki MediaWiki WikyBlog
HTML Tags
All
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional
No
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability WackoWiki MediaWiki WikyBlog
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics WackoWiki MediaWiki WikyBlog
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
No
Output WackoWiki MediaWiki WikyBlog
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
No
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki MediaWiki WikyBlog
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
No
Extras WackoWiki MediaWiki WikyBlog
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
No
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki MediaWiki WikyBlog
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<center>Centered</center>
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
one
two
: indented line
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
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 : definition
Horizontal Rule
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