Confluence vs. Zwiki vs. Wiclear vs. WackoWiki

General Features Confluence Zwiki Wiclear WackoWiki
Version
5.2
0.61
1.0
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Author
Atlassian
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
David Jobet
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPLv2
GPL2
BSD
Programming Language
Java
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
private users
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features Confluence Zwiki Wiclear WackoWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Confluence Zwiki Wiclear WackoWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
any
All
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Zope
Apache
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
MySql
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Confluence Zwiki Wiclear WackoWiki
Text Files
No
Plugin
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Oracle
Yes
Plugin
No
No
SQLite
No
Unknown
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
No
RCS
No
Unknown
No
No
Other
ZODB (zope object database)
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence Zwiki Wiclear WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Patch
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Patch
No
No
Development/Support Confluence Zwiki Wiclear WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features Confluence Zwiki Wiclear WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
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
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence Zwiki Wiclear WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
No
Yes
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Links Confluence Zwiki Wiclear WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Confluence Zwiki Wiclear WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Optional
No
No
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
DTML
Not at the moment
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Confluence Zwiki Wiclear WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Patch
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics Confluence Zwiki Wiclear WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Output Confluence Zwiki Wiclear WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Patch
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files Confluence Zwiki Wiclear WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras Confluence Zwiki Wiclear WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples Confluence Zwiki Wiclear WackoWiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[Title]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
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..
[Title|http://url.to/]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
*bold*
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
+underline+
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
Images
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
((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
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
{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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