Wicked vs. MediaWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Version
2.0.8
1.32.2
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2017-09-20 (6 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-04-19 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-15 (5 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2020-04-20 (4 years ago)
Author
The Horde Project
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
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
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
System Requirements Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Any with PHP support
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
Text_Wiki from PEAR
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
None
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
25 different backends
Yes
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
1 ⭐
N/A
42 ⭐
Common Features Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki
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
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Patch
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
No
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Links Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
None
Some
Some
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Yes
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
No
Optional
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Patch
Statistics Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Patch
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Patch
Analysis
No
Optional
Yes
Output Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Patch
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Unknown
No
Media and Files Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
No
Keywords
No
Extras Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
No
Unknown
No
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Optional
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
[http://example.org The title]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
@@+++ underline @@
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
@@--- strikethrough @@
<s>strikethrough</s>
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
: indented line
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
(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
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
; term : definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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