wxWikiServer vs. WackoWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features wxWikiServer WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse
Version
1.5.11c
6.1.25
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2005-12-02 (18 years ago)
2024-04-11 (22 days ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-07 (18 years ago)
2024-04-11 (22 days ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
Ryan Norton
WackoWiki Team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
BSD
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
C++
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
NA
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End users/Desktop
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Any
family people, hackers
System Requirements wxWikiServer WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
built-in
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
None
mod_rewrite (optional)
various opt. helpers
Writable data directory
Datastorage wxWikiServer WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
Other
MariaDB
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
Security/Anti-Spam wxWikiServer WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
unknown
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support wxWikiServer WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
67 ⭐
Common Features wxWikiServer WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse
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
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features wxWikiServer WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Links wxWikiServer WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features wxWikiServer WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
no
actions (PHP)
plugins, templates, PHP
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability wxWikiServer WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics wxWikiServer WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output wxWikiServer WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Patch
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
No
Media and Files wxWikiServer WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras wxWikiServer WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples wxWikiServer WackoWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
External Link
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
''' bold text '''
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
'' italic text ''
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
start line with blank space.
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<strike>striked through</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>above</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>below</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.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
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
] centred text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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

no example known
Text Indentation
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
one
two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
* two.1
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* list
or
- list
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# list
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Term:<def>
def
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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