| General Features | Wala Wiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.1.7
|
6.2.1
|
1.32.2
|
1.2.101
|
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
|
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
|
| Last Release Date |
March, 2007
|
2026-03-03 (13 days ago)
|
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
|
2006-06-15 (19 years ago)
|
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
|
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2007-03-28 (18 years ago)
|
2026-03-03 (13 days ago)
|
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
|
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
|
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
|
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
|
| Author |
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
|
WackoWiki Team
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Raymond Camden
|
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
|
Andreas Gohr
|
| URL | ||||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Public Domain
|
BSD
|
GPL
|
Apache
|
Public Domain (!)
|
GPL 2
|
| Programming Language |
Perl
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
ColdFusion
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Database
|
Database
|
Database
|
Database, Files, RCS
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Mildly technical
|
small + medium sites, development teams
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
| System Requirements | Wala Wiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, *BSD
|
OS Independent
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Windows, Linux, Solaris
|
any
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any that supports basic CGI.
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
Any with PHP support
|
Apache, IIS
|
anything with PHP support
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
none
|
ColdFusion MX
|
none
|
|
| Datastorage | Wala Wiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Other |
diffs
|
MariaDB
|
No
|
Access, SQL Server
|
no
|
None
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Wala Wiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
|
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
Yes
|
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | Wala Wiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||||
| Mailing List | ||||||
| Support Forum | ||||||
| Chat Channel |
not yet :-)
|
|||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
56 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
4580 ⭐
|
| Common Features | Wala Wiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| Preview |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
|
| Revision Diffs |
To current
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Wala Wiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, 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 |
0
|
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch |
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
|
| Categories |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Not available
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Links | Wala Wiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | Wala Wiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| HTML Tags |
None
|
All
|
Some
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
actions (PHP)
|
Optional
|
optional
|
Optional, PHP
|
||
| Content Includes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Wala Wiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Wala Wiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Output | Wala Wiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | Wala Wiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| File Attachments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
Keywords
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
|
| Extras | Wala Wiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | Wala Wiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| Internal Link |
LinkDump, [link dump] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
|
WikiPage [WikiPage | Go here] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
| External Link |
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3] |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
|
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net [http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here] mario@wiki.net |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
| Headlines |
= headline = |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
|
!!! Big Headline !! Medium Headline ! Section Headline |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
| Bold Format |
'''bolded''' |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
|
__bold text__ **bold text** |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
''italicized'' |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
|
''ialic text'' |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
|
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
|
optional or via css |
__underlined__ |
| Monospace Format |
monospaced. |
##monospace## |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
|
==monospaced text== |
''monospace'' |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
--strikethrough-- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
|
optional or via css |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
| Superscript Format |
|
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
^^superscript text^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
optional or via css |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include. |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
|
[link to the image.jpg] |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
| Aligning Text |
|
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
<center>Centered</center> |
|
optional or via css |
Plugin |
| Text Indentation |
:Block-quoted text. |
one two |
: indented line |
|
just use 3 spaces or tabs indented text |
N/A |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Bullet point * Bullet point |
*one **One-two *two *three |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
|
* Item A * Item B ** Item B1 |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# One # Two # Three |
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 1.1a ##* Item 1.1b |
- 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 |
|
:definition: explanation :anotherdef: another description |
Plugin |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
---- |
---- |
|
---- |
---- |
| remove Wala Wiki | remove WackoWiki | remove MediaWiki | remove CanvasWiki | remove ErfurtWiki | remove DokuWiki |