| General Features | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
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6.3.0
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0.61
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2.7.4
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| Last Release Date |
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
|
2026-07-18 (1 month ago)
|
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
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2026-07-31 (25 days ago)
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| Last Update here |
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
|
2026-07-18 (1 month ago)
|
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
|
2026-07-31 (25 days ago)
|
| Author |
Andreas Gohr
|
WackoWiki Team
|
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL 2
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BSD
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GPLv2
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GPL2+
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| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
Python
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PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Database
|
Database
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
|
Mature
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| Intended Audience |
personal, small to medium companies
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
|
All
|
| System Requirements | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
OS Independent
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any
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
Zope
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
|
| Other Requirements |
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
none
|
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| Datastorage | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
None
|
MariaDB
|
ZODB (zope object database)
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
|
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
No
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
#zwiki on freenode
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|||
| Stars on GitHub |
4707 ⭐
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55 ⭐
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N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
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 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Interface Languages |
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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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 |
0
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Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Links | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
All
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
actions (PHP)
|
DTML
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Output | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
No
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
WikiName [freeform name] [[double-bracketed]] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
| External Link |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
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.. |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
| Headlines |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
|
! Level 1 !!#anchor Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
**bold** |
|
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
//italics// |
|
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
__underlined__ |
__underline__ |
|
{+underlined+} |
| Monospace Format |
''monospace'' |
##monospace## |
|
@@monospace@@ |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
--strikethrough-- |
|
{-strikethrough-} |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
|
'^superscript^' |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
|
'_subscript_' |
| Images |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
|
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
| Aligning Text |
Plugin |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
|
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
| Text Indentation |
N/A |
one two |
|
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
| Bulleted Lists |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
*one **One-two *two *three |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
Plugin |
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html} |
|
: term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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