PhpWiki vs. Zwiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
0.61
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPLv2
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Zope
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Plugin
No
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Plugin
No
Oracle
Yes
Plugin
No
SQLite
Yes
Unknown
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Yes
Unknown
No
RCS
Yes
Unknown
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
ZODB (zope object database)
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Patch
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Patch
No
Development/Support PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
0
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Structured Data
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Links PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
Patch
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Optional
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
DTML
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Patch
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Optional
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Patch
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
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
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[ 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.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# list
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
{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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