giewiki vs. Zwiki vs. WackoWiki vs. LynxWiki vs. Zim

General Features giewiki Zwiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
Version
1.13.1
0.61
6.2.1
1.3.0.0
0.56
Last Release Date
2011-07-21 (14 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2011-08-14 (14 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-04-25 (1 month ago)
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Poul Staugaard
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
WackoWiki Team
J.W. Davidson
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
new BSD License
GPLv2
BSD
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
Python
Python
PHP
C#
Python
Data Storage
other
Database
Database
Database, Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
community/personal
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
small organization to enterprise
Private users, small teams
System Requirements giewiki Zwiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
Operating System
Windows/Mac/Linux
any
OS Independent
Windows
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
Yes
No
Webserver
Google App Engine or SDK
Zope
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
IIS7 or IIS8
None
Other Requirements
Python 2.5
mod_rewrite (optional)
IronPython
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage giewiki Zwiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
Text Files
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Plugin
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
No
No
RCS
No
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Other
App Engine
ZODB (zope object database)
MariaDB
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam giewiki Zwiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Google accounts
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
MS Membership and Roles
File permissions
Host Blocking
Yes
Patch
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Patch
No
No
No
Development/Support giewiki Zwiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
54 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features giewiki Zwiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features giewiki Zwiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
1
English
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Patch
No
Yes
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Links giewiki Zwiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features giewiki Zwiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
None
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Patch
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
FAQ Tags
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript
DTML
actions (PHP)
IronPython
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Usability giewiki Zwiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics giewiki Zwiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Output giewiki Zwiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Patch
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Patch
Patch
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files giewiki Zwiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
No
Extras giewiki Zwiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples giewiki Zwiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
Internal Link
TiddlyWiki
[[Style library|StyleLib]]
[[Plugins|/Plugins]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
http://appengine.google.com
[[AppEngine|http://appengine.google.com]]
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]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
!Headline
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
''Bald''
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italy//
//italics//
_italics_
//italic//
Underline Format
__Undertow__
__underline__
+underlined+
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{Courier}}}
##monospace##
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
--Sorry--
--strikethrough--
-strikethrough-
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
256^^2^^
^^superscript^^
superscript^234^
^{sup}
Subscript Format
Sub~~script~~
,,subscript,,
water: H~2~O
_{sub}
Images
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>>
(Args: file [alignment] [width%])
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
N/A
not implemented
Text Indentation
one
two
N/A
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* One
* Two
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* first bullet (8 spaces)
* first sub item bullet
* second item
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. first numbered item
1. second item
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
; term
: description
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
N/A
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
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not implemented
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