PmWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. LynxWiki vs. Zim

General Features PmWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
Version
2.5.5
6.2.0
1.3.0.0
0.56
Last Release Date
2026-01-10 (16 days ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
2012-04-02 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-01-10 (16 days ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
WackoWiki Team
J.W. Davidson
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
BSD
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
C#
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
small organization to enterprise
Private users, small teams
System Requirements PmWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Windows
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
Yes
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
IIS7 or IIS8
None
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
IronPython
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage PmWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
MariaDB
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
MS Membership and Roles
File permissions
Host Blocking
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support PmWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
54 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features PmWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
No
Yes
Special Features PmWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
1
English
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
No
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Links PmWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features PmWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
None
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Optional
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
actions (PHP)
IronPython
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Usability PmWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics PmWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output PmWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
No
Extras PmWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki Zim
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
_italics_
//italic//
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
__underline__
+underlined+
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
-strikethrough-
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
superscript^234^
^{sup}
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
vvsubscriptvv
water: H~2~O
_{sub}
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
N/A
not implemented
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
one
two
N/A
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* first bullet (8 spaces)
* first sub item bullet
* second item
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. first numbered item
1. second item
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
: term : definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
N/A
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
----
----
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not implemented
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