PhpWiki vs. Zwiki vs. WackoWiki vs. BrainKeeper

General Features PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
0.61
6.2.1
N/A
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-04-25 (2 months ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
WackoWiki Team
BrainKeeper, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
License
GPL
GPLv2
BSD
N/A
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP
N/A
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Any
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Hosting Features PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
None
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
No Restrictions
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
OS Independent
N/A
Root Access
No
No
No
N/A
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Zope
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
N/A
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
mod_rewrite (optional)
N/A
Datastorage PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Text Files
Yes
Plugin
No
N/A
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
Yes
Plugin
No
N/A
Oracle
Yes
Plugin
No
N/A
SQLite
Yes
Unknown
Yes
N/A
BerkeleyDB
Yes
Unknown
No
N/A
RCS
Yes
Unknown
No
N/A
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
ZODB (zope object database)
MariaDB
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
N/A
Host Blocking
No
Patch
Optional
Unknown
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Patch
No
No
Development/Support PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Patch
N/A
Structured Data
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Links PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Unknown
Textile Support
No
No
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Unknown
Emoticon Images
No
Patch
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Optional
No
Yes
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
DTML
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Patch
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Output PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Patch
Patch
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Calendar
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples PhpWiki Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
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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