Confluence vs. WackoWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features Confluence WackoWiki Zwiki
Version
5.2
6.2.1
0.61
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
WackoWiki Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
BSD
GPLv2
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Hosting Features Confluence WackoWiki Zwiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Confluence WackoWiki Zwiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
OS Independent
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Zope
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Confluence WackoWiki Zwiki
Text Files
No
No
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Plugin
Oracle
Yes
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
Yes
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
Unknown
Other
MariaDB
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence WackoWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Patch
Development/Support Confluence WackoWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Confluence WackoWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence WackoWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links Confluence WackoWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Confluence WackoWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Optional
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
actions (PHP)
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Confluence WackoWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Confluence WackoWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Output Confluence WackoWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Patch
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence WackoWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Confluence WackoWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence WackoWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
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. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_
//italics//
Underline Format
+underline+
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
{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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