WackoWiki Features

“... Much of the true value of the Web comes from targeted, specialized sites.
Small sites can't afford monster CMS products, so a good low-end system is highly welcome.” — Jakob Nielsen

WackoWiki – Small, lightweight, handy, expandable, multilingual Wiki-engine. WYTIWYG editor, easy installer, many localizations, email notification on changes/comments, several cache levels, design themes (skins) support, HTML5 compliance, page rights (ACLs), page comments and is distributed under the BSD License.


  • cms engine — to manage the content of the site in handy manner
  • weblog (multiuser version) — to intercommunicate with each others in community
  • wiki — to collaborate with each other in the team on project-related basis

Key Features

  1. light-weight
  2. small code base
  3. designed for speed and extensibility
  4. easily customizable
  5. quick and easy installation
  6. clean user interface
  7. integrated user management
  8. access control through per-page access control lists
  9. integrated page commenting functionality
  10. WhatYouThinkIsWhatYouGet editing
  11. full revision control, of course
  12. powerful diff between revisions
  13. installer & upgrader
  14. clusters & relative addressing
  15. page watching & email notification on changes/comments (simple diff included in email), RSS 
  16. completely multilingual (ru, en, es, et, el, da, de, fr, nl, it, pl, pt, bg included. Creating new language scheme seems to be very easy — we have got most schemes from Wacko users)
  17. links can be CamelCase or FreeLinks
  18. several levels of caching (backlinks, pages, queries, templates)
  19. automatic table of contents generation
  20. on-the-fly correction of punctual typos & spec. characters
  21. design themes (skins) support
  22. uploads per page or global.