Wiki.js vs. WackoWiki vs. PmWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Version
2.5.299
6.1.25
2.3.33
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2024-04-20 (27 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2024-04-21 (26 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Nicolas Giard
WackoWiki Team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-v3
BSD
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
Javascript
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, other, RCS
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everyone
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
All
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
All
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Node.js
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
none
Datastorage Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Other
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
MariaDB
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Yes
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Optional
No
Development/Support Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
19117 ⭐
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, 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
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Comments
Flat
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
JS, CSS
actions (PHP)
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Output Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Patch
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiki.js WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**Bold Text**
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
*Italic Text*
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>Underline Text</u>
__underline__
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
`Monospace Code`
##monospace##
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
~~Strikethrough Text~~
--strikethrough--
{-strikethrough-}
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^Superscript Text^
^^superscript^^
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~Subscript Text~
vvsubscriptvv
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
one
two
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# 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}
: term : definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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