ikiwiki vs. PhpWiki vs. Sputnik vs. Wiclear vs. Zwiki

General Features ikiwiki PhpWiki Sputnik Wiclear Zwiki
Version
2.67
phpwiki-1.3.14
8.08.13
1.0
0.61
Last Release Date
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Yuri Takhteyev
David Jobet
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
MIT/X
GPL2
GPLv2
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Lua
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
Any
Small teams or private users
private users
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements ikiwiki PhpWiki Sputnik Wiclear Zwiki
Operating System
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
All
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, CGI, Xavante
Apache
Zope
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
gcc or Lua
MySql
Datastorage ikiwiki PhpWiki Sputnik Wiclear Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
Unknown
RCS
Yes
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Git
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki PhpWiki Sputnik Wiclear Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Yes
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Patch
Development/Support ikiwiki PhpWiki Sputnik Wiclear Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ikiwiki PhpWiki Sputnik Wiclear Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ikiwiki PhpWiki Sputnik Wiclear Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Flat
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Links ikiwiki PhpWiki Sputnik Wiclear Zwiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features ikiwiki PhpWiki Sputnik Wiclear Zwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
No
Optional
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
plugins, templates, PHP
Lua, JavaScript
Not at the moment
DTML
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability ikiwiki PhpWiki Sputnik Wiclear Zwiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
No
Patch
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Patch
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Statistics ikiwiki PhpWiki Sputnik Wiclear Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Output ikiwiki PhpWiki Sputnik Wiclear Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
No
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ikiwiki PhpWiki Sputnik Wiclear Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
No
Filenames only
Extras ikiwiki PhpWiki Sputnik Wiclear Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ikiwiki PhpWiki Sputnik Wiclear Zwiki
Internal Link
[[internal]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[Sputnik]]
[Title]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org)
[Title|http://url.to/]
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
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
# Sputnik
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__
__bold__
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_
''italic''
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
> Sputnik
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* list
or
- list
* Sputnik
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
Numbered Lists
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# list
1. Sputnik
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Term:<def>
def
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
----
- - -
remove ikiwiki remove PhpWiki remove Sputnik remove Wiclear remove Zwiki