ikiwiki vs. WiGit vs. Zwiki

General Features ikiwiki WiGit Zwiki
Version
2.67
0.1
0.61
Last Release Date
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2008-07-21 (17 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2009-07-09 (16 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Remko Tronçon
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
other
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
Private users
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements ikiwiki WiGit Zwiki
Operating System
Any
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
Zope
Other Requirements
Git
Datastorage ikiwiki WiGit Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
RCS
Yes
No
Unknown
Other
Git repositories
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki WiGit Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Patch
Development/Support ikiwiki WiGit Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ikiwiki WiGit Zwiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features ikiwiki WiGit Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
0
0
Email notification
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Flat
Categories
Plugin
No
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Links ikiwiki WiGit Zwiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
No
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features ikiwiki WiGit Zwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Optional
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
DTML
Content Includes
Plugin
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Plugin
Usability ikiwiki WiGit Zwiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Patch
Toolbar
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics ikiwiki WiGit Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
No
Output ikiwiki WiGit Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Plugin
No
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ikiwiki WiGit Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
No
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras ikiwiki WiGit Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ikiwiki WiGit Zwiki
Internal Link
[[internal]]
[InternalLink]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
"External link":http://externallink.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..
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
h1. Headline
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
*Bold*
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
_Italics_
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
+underlined+
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
@monospace@
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
~subscript~
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
!image.jpg!
Aligning Text
>Right-aligned
Text Indentation
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Bulleted
* List
** Sublist
Numbered Lists
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# Numbered
# List
## Sublist
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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