Wiclear vs. WackoWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features Wiclear WackoWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
Version
1.0
6.1.25
1.32.2
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2007-08-06 (16 years ago)
2024-04-11 (13 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2005-06-15 (18 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2020-04-19 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-09-16 (16 years ago)
2024-04-11 (13 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2010-04-04 (14 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2020-04-20 (4 years ago)
Author
David Jobet
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2
BSD
GPL
Public Domain (!)
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
small + medium sites, development teams
Any
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
System Requirements Wiclear WackoWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
All
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any with PHP support
anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
MySql
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
none
various opt. helpers
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Wiclear WackoWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
MariaDB
No
no
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
Security/Anti-Spam Wiclear WackoWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Patch
No
No
Development/Support Wiclear WackoWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
42 ⭐
Common Features Wiclear WackoWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiclear WackoWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Interface Languages
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Comments
Flat
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Plugin
Links Wiclear WackoWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features Wiclear WackoWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Plugin
Some
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Not at the moment
actions (PHP)
Optional
optional
plugins, templates, PHP
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Wiclear WackoWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Optional
Patch
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Statistics Wiclear WackoWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Patch
Analysis
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Output Wiclear WackoWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
No
Optional
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Patch
PDF Export
No
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files Wiclear WackoWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
No
No
No
Extras Wiclear WackoWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Wiclear WackoWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
[Title]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
[Title|http://url.to/]
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://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold text__
**bold text**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
''ialic text''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
optional or via css
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
==monospaced text==
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
optional or via css
<strike>striked through</strike>
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript text^^
<sup>above</sup>
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
optional or via css
<sub>below</sub>
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[link to the image.jpg]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<center>Centered</center>
optional or via css
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
one
two
: indented line
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* list
or
- list
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
Numbered Lists
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
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

# list
(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
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
{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
Term:<def>
def
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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