Git-Wiki vs. WackoWiki vs. ProWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features Git-Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki Zwiki
Version
1.0
6.3.0
2.0.045
0.61
Last Release Date
2026-07-18 (12 days ago)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2022-04-17 (4 years ago)
2026-07-18 (12 days ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Helmut Leitner
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
BSD
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
Ruby
PHP
Perl
Python
Data Storage
RCS
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, Public
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements Git-Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki Zwiki
Operating System
*nix
OS Independent
Unix / Linux
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Zope
Other Requirements
Ruby
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage Git-Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki Zwiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Other
Git
MariaDB
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam Git-Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Plugin system, backends can be added
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Patch
Development/Support Git-Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
242 ⭐
55 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Git-Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki Zwiki
Preview
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Plugin
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
No
Yes
Special Features Git-Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
4
Czech, German, English, French
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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
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
0
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Flat
No
Flat
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Links Git-Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Git-Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Optional
Scripting
XML based, Javascript
actions (PHP)
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability Git-Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Patch
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Git-Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Output Git-Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Patch
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Git-Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras Git-Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Git-Wiki WackoWiki ProWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[[http://example.org|The title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
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
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
[[strike]strikethrough text]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>text</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>text</sub>
Images
{{Image.png}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
Text Indentation
one
two
: indented line
:: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# numbered list
## numbered list
Definition Lists
{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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remove Git-Wiki remove WackoWiki remove ProWiki remove Zwiki