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Add to SafariWhen comparing WikidPad vs WackoWiki, the Slant community recommends WackoWiki for most people. In the question“What is the best single-user wiki?” WackoWiki is ranked 3rd while WikidPad is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose WackoWiki is:
It allows pages to be divided among "directories / namespaces" using forward slashes.
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Pros
Pro Free
Pro No remote server needed, or wanted
Pro Export to HTML built in
Export to HTML built in and can work with Dropbox.
Pro Data is stored in standard Text files
Data can be viewed, edited, searched, exported easily, and can work with Git.
Pro Instant cross-referencing methods
On the fly WikiWord linking, as you type.
Pro Quick, auto-saving, and auto-organizing
Auto-organizing with URL and file linking, and instant new-page methods.
Pro Supports namespaces
It allows pages to be divided among "directories / namespaces" using forward slashes.
Pro Access control
WackoWiki has built-in ACL support.
Pro Highly customizable
You can use themes and plugins (actions, handlers, highlighters) to extend functionality.
Pro Section editing
Allows editing only a section of a page.
Pro File upload and management tools
WackoWiki allows to upload and manage uploaded files for certain pages and for the whole system.
Pro Very fast, consuming very few resources
WackoWiki allows to run it on web hostings with few resources.
Pro Forum component
WackoWiki allows to organize wiki pages with comments to a forum.
Pro Hierarchical page tree
WackoWiki has a hierarchical page tree and page categories.
Pro Version control
WackoWiki offers unlimited page revisions.
Pro Built-in template engine
It has a powerful and easy to use templating system.
Pro RSS-feeds
WackoWiki allows to feed recent changes, recent comments and news as RSS.
Pro Free and open source
Distributed under the BSD License.
Pro Runs on any PHP server
It requires a webserver running PHP.
Pro A dedicated page for Alphabetic pages catalog
A dedicated page for Alphabetic page tree catalog is set by default.
Pro News component
WackoWiki allows to organize wiki pages with comments to a news feed.
Pro Multilingual with UTF-8
WackoWiki is multilingual with full UTF-8 support
Pro Search functionality
WackoWiki allows searching through pages.
Pro A dedicated page for recent changes
A dedicated page to quickly note what has changed recently is set by default.
Pro A dedicated page for recent comments
A dedicated page to quickly note what pages has been recently commented is set by default.
Pro Responsive Mobile-friendly template
Has responsive mobile-friendly design template.
Cons
Con No MarkDown support
