LynxWiki vs. ProWiki vs. Roadkill vs. Zwiki

General Features LynxWiki ProWiki Roadkill Zwiki
Version
1.3.0.0
2.0.045
1.6
0.61
Last Release Date
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
27/04/2013
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2013-04-25 (13 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
J.W. Davidson
Helmut Leitner
C.Small
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
MS-PL
GPLv2
Programming Language
C#
Perl
C#
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small organization to enterprise
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Small-mid sized teams, website wikis
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements LynxWiki ProWiki Roadkill Zwiki
Operating System
Windows
Unix / Linux
Windows Server, Ubuntu
any
Root Access
Yes
No
Yes
No
Webserver
IIS7 or IIS8
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
IIS, Apache
Zope
Other Requirements
IronPython
none
mono and mod_mono on Ubuntu
Datastorage LynxWiki ProWiki Roadkill Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Other
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
SQL Server, MongoDB
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam LynxWiki ProWiki Roadkill Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
MS Membership and Roles
Database, Active Directory, custom if needed
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Optional
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Patch
Development/Support LynxWiki ProWiki Roadkill Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features LynxWiki ProWiki Roadkill Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
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
No
No
No
Yes
Special Features LynxWiki ProWiki Roadkill Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
No
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
3
Czech, English, Polish
0
Email notification
No
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
No
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Links LynxWiki ProWiki Roadkill Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Syntax Features LynxWiki ProWiki Roadkill Zwiki
HTML Tags
None
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
No
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Optional
Scripting
IronPython
none
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Usability LynxWiki ProWiki Roadkill Zwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Patch
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics LynxWiki ProWiki Roadkill Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
No
No
Output LynxWiki ProWiki Roadkill Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files LynxWiki ProWiki Roadkill Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Filenames only
Extras LynxWiki ProWiki Roadkill Zwiki
Calendar
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
No
No
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples LynxWiki ProWiki Roadkill Zwiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
[[Pagename|linkname]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
[[URL|linkname]]
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
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
== Large heading
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
** bold **
Italics Format
_italics_
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
+underlined+
<u>underlined</u>
_underline_
Monospace Format
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{

monospace

}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
[[strike]strikethrough text]
Superscript Format
superscript^234^
<sup>text</sup>
Subscript Format
water: H~2~O
<sub>text</sub>
Images
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
{{Image.jpg.|title}}
Aligning Text
N/A
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
:: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* first bullet (8 spaces)
* first sub item bullet
* second item
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* Bullet List
** Sub item
Numbered Lists
1. first numbered item
1. second item
# numbered list
## numbered list
# Numbered list
## Sub item
Definition Lists
N/A
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
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