WikyBlog vs. MediaWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. Wicked vs. Wiclear vs. WikkaWiki

General Features WikyBlog MediaWiki PhpWiki Wicked Wiclear WikkaWiki
Version
1.5.4
1.32.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.0.8
1.0
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2007-10-23 (16 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2017-09-20 (6 years ago)
2007-08-06 (16 years ago)
2020-04-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-10-24 (16 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2009-04-03 (14 years ago)
2018-10-15 (5 years ago)
2007-09-16 (16 years ago)
2020-04-20 (3 years ago)
Author
Josh Schmidt
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
The Horde Project
David Jobet
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL 2
GPL2
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, Internet Communities
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
private users
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
System Requirements WikyBlog MediaWiki PhpWiki Wicked Wiclear WikkaWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
All
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, anything with PHP
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any
Apache
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
MySQL
none
various opt. helpers
Text_Wiki from PEAR
MySql
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage WikyBlog MediaWiki PhpWiki Wicked Wiclear WikkaWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Other
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam WikyBlog MediaWiki PhpWiki Wicked Wiclear WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
25 different backends
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
No
No
Development/Support WikyBlog MediaWiki PhpWiki Wicked Wiclear WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
1 ⭐
N/A
42 ⭐
Common Features WikyBlog MediaWiki PhpWiki Wicked Wiclear WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikyBlog MediaWiki PhpWiki Wicked Wiclear WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
5
English, French, Japanese, Turkish, 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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
0
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
No
Unknown
Plugin
Links WikyBlog MediaWiki PhpWiki Wicked Wiclear WikkaWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Features WikyBlog MediaWiki PhpWiki Wicked Wiclear WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Some
None
Optional
Some
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
No
No
Scripting
No
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
No
Not at the moment
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Usability WikyBlog MediaWiki PhpWiki Wicked Wiclear WikkaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Optional
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Patch
Statistics WikyBlog MediaWiki PhpWiki Wicked Wiclear WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Patch
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Output WikyBlog MediaWiki PhpWiki Wicked Wiclear WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
No
No
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
No
Patch
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Media and Files WikyBlog MediaWiki PhpWiki Wicked Wiclear WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Media Search
No
Keywords
No
No
No
No
Extras WikyBlog MediaWiki PhpWiki Wicked Wiclear WikkaWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Blogs
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples WikyBlog MediaWiki PhpWiki Wicked Wiclear WikkaWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
[Title]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
[Title|http://url.to/]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
@@+++ underline @@
__underlined__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{monospace}}
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
@@--- strikethrough @@
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[ 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
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
: indented line
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# list
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
(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
; term : definition
; term : definition
Term:<def>
def
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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