MoasdaWiki vs. Anwiki vs. Zwiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Version
3.9.1
0.2.5
0.61
6.3.0
Last Release Date
2024-10-04 (1 year ago)
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-07-18 (12 days ago)
Last Update here
2024-11-03 (1 year ago)
2013-06-25 (13 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-07-18 (12 days ago)
Author
Herbert Reiter
Antoine Walter
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-3.0-only
GPL 3
GPLv2
BSD
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal usage, small teams
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Any platform with Java VM 17+
Linux, Windows, probably others
any
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Built-in
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Zope
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Java VM 17+
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Plugin
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
No
Unknown
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
No
Unknown
No
Other
No
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
ZODB (zope object database)
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
No
Patch
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
No
No
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Patch
No
Development/Support MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4 ⭐
N/A
55 ⭐
Common Features MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Restricted by Age or Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
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
Email notification
No
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
No
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Links MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Footnotes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Unknown
Optional
No
Scripting
JavaScript
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
DTML
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Patch
Yes
Toolbar
No
No
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Optional
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
No
No
Plugin
Output MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Unknown
No
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Unknown
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
Patch
Patch
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Unknown
Optional
Blogs
No
No
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Unknown
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link | with title]]
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[[http://example.org]]
[[http://example.org | with title]]
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
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]]
Headlines
= Section
== Subsection
=== Sub-subsection
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
''bold''
<b>bold</b>
**bold**
Italics Format
##italic##
<i>italic</i>
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace font@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
~~striked through~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
{{html}}<sup>superscript</sup>{{/html}}
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
{{html}}<sub>subscript</sub>{{/html}}
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
{{image:wiki.png}}
<img src=""/>
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
{{center}}centered text
<center>anwiki</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
Non-indented text

Single indented text

Double indented text
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
<ol>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ol>
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
{{html}}
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
{{/html}}
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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<hr/>
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