ButorWiki vs. Hatta vs. WikkaWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features ButorWiki Hatta WikkaWiki Zwiki
Version
2.2.1
1.6.6
1.4.2
0.61
Last Release Date
2007-03-09 (19 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-07-30 (18 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Aiman Sawan
Radomir Dopieralski
Wikka Development Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL v2
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
Java
Python
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
SMB
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements ButorWiki Hatta WikkaWiki Zwiki
Operating System
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
any (platform-independent)
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any webserver
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Zope
Other Requirements
Tomcat 4.1 +
Mercurial
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage ButorWiki Hatta WikkaWiki Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Other
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
No
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam ButorWiki Hatta WikkaWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None
n/a
Active Directory (patch)
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Unknown
No
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Patch
Development/Support ButorWiki Hatta WikkaWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
42 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ButorWiki Hatta WikkaWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ButorWiki Hatta WikkaWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
0
0
Email notification
Optional
No
Patch
Yes
Comments
Threaded
No
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Optional
Optional
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Optional
No
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Links ButorWiki Hatta WikkaWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Patch
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Features ButorWiki Hatta WikkaWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
All
None
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
No
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Optional
Scripting
Internal Macros
JavaScript
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
DTML
Content Includes
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability ButorWiki Hatta WikkaWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
No
Patch
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Patch
Yes
Statistics ButorWiki Hatta WikkaWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
Patch
Optional
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Patch
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Output ButorWiki Hatta WikkaWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Patch
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Patch
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files ButorWiki Hatta WikkaWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
No
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras ButorWiki Hatta WikkaWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ButorWiki Hatta WikkaWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
<a href="..."></a>
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
<a href="..."></a>
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
...
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
<b>Bold</b>
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
<i>Italics</i>
//italic//
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>Underline</u>
n/a
__underlined__
Monospace Format
{{{verbatim}}}
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
n/a
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
n/a
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
n/a
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
n/a
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
n/a
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
* list
** sublist
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
Numbered Lists
n/a
(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
n/a
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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