WikkaWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. XWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki
Version
1.4.2
1.32.2
6.1.25
16.2.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2020-04-19 (4 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (8 days ago)
2024-03-24 (26 days ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (3 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (8 days ago)
2024-03-25 (25 days ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
XWiki Development Team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Any
Hosting Features WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
various opt. helpers
Datastorage WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
No
No
MariaDB
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
No
Development/Support WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
0
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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Patch
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Links WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
All
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Optional
actions (PHP)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Access Keys
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Patch
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Patch
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Office Export
No
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
Contents
No
Extras WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
//Italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
Images
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
[ 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
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
: indented line
one
two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* List
** list
*** list
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# list
Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
; term : definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term
: definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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