WackoWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. MediaWiki

General Features WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Version
6.1.25
2.3.13
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Alex Schroeder
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
family people, hackers
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
Anything supported by Perl
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Writable data directory
none
Datastorage WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
MariaDB
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Yes
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
32 ⭐
67 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Patch
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
No
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Perl
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Optional
Output WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Patch
No
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Optional
No
Ticket System
No
No
No
Chat
Patch
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
no example known
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
one
two
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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