Wala Wiki vs. ProWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. WackoWiki

General Features Wala Wiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Version
1.1.7
2.0.045
1.9.11
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2024-03-18 (2 months ago)
2006-10-13 (17 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2007-03-28 (17 years ago)
2009-11-28 (14 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Author
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
Helmut Leitner
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements Wala Wiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, *BSD
Unix / Linux
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any that supports basic CGI.
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
none
None
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Wala Wiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
diffs
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Wala Wiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support Wala Wiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features Wala Wiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wala Wiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
1
English
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
No
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Links Wala Wiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wala Wiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
HTML Tags
None
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
No
Yes
Usability Wala Wiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
No
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wala Wiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output Wala Wiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
No
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Patch
Media and Files Wala Wiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Contents
Extras Wala Wiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Patch
Syntax Examples Wala Wiki ProWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Internal Link
LinkDump, [link dump]
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
= headline =
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
'''bolded'''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italicized''
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
monospaced.
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
--(strikethrough)--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
,,subscript,,
vvsubscriptvv
Images
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
:Block-quoted text.
: indented line
:: indented line
indented text
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
# Three
# numbered list
## numbered list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
; term: definition
term:: definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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