EditMe vs. Zwiki vs. XoWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features EditMe Zwiki XoWiki KeheiWiki WackoWiki
Version
N/A
0.61
0.113
Pleiades-M45
6.3.0
Last Release Date
N/A
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2026-07-18 (26 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-07-12 (16 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2009-03-13 (17 years ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2026-07-18 (26 days ago)
Author
EditMe, LLC
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
team
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPLv2
BSD
LGPL
BSD
Programming Language
N/A
Python
XOTcl and Tcl
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
N/A
Database
Database
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
From $4.95/mo
0
Free
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
large and small organizations as well as individuals
corporate and special interest groups
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features EditMe Zwiki XoWiki KeheiWiki WackoWiki
Storage Quota
25MB to 4GB
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
1GB to 25GB
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements EditMe Zwiki XoWiki KeheiWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
N/A
any
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Unix/Linux
OS Independent
Root Access
N/A
No
Yes
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Zope
AOLServer
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
N/A
perl 4 or newer
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage EditMe Zwiki XoWiki KeheiWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
N/A
Plugin
No
Yes
No
MySQL
N/A
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Oracle
N/A
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
SQLite
N/A
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
N/A
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
RCS
N/A
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Other
N/A
ZODB (zope object database)
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam EditMe Zwiki XoWiki KeheiWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
Apache
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Patch
Patch
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
No
Development/Support EditMe Zwiki XoWiki KeheiWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features EditMe Zwiki XoWiki KeheiWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features EditMe Zwiki XoWiki KeheiWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
0
3
German, English, Spanish
1
English
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links EditMe Zwiki XoWiki KeheiWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features EditMe Zwiki XoWiki KeheiWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
All
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Optional
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Optional
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Patch
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript
DTML
Yes
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability EditMe Zwiki XoWiki KeheiWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Patch
Optional
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Statistics EditMe Zwiki XoWiki KeheiWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output EditMe Zwiki XoWiki KeheiWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Patch
Unknown
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files EditMe Zwiki XoWiki KeheiWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Extras EditMe Zwiki XoWiki KeheiWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples EditMe Zwiki XoWiki KeheiWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
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://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
Use WYSIWYG editor
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
**bold**
Italics Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
//italics//
Underline Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
__underline__
Monospace Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
,,subscript,,
Images
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
Use WYSIWYG editor
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
Use WYSIWYG editor
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
one
two
Bulleted Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
Use WYSIWYG editor
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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