ButorWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. Zwiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Version
2.2.1
phpwiki-1.3.14
0.61
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2007-03-09 (19 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
Last Update here
2007-07-30 (18 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-04-25 (2 months ago)
Author
Aiman Sawan
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL
GPLv2
BSD
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
SMB
Any
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Zope
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Tomcat 4.1 +
various opt. helpers
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
Unknown
No
RCS
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
ZODB (zope object database)
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Unknown
No
Patch
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Patch
No
Development/Support ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
0
34
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Flat
Categories
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Links ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
No
Patch
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Optional
No
Scripting
Internal Macros
plugins, templates, PHP
DTML
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Patch
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Unknown
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
<a href="..."></a>
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
<a href="..."></a>
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
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..
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
...
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
<b>Bold</b>
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
Italics Format
<i>Italics</i>
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>Underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[ 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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# list
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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