PmWiki vs. WiGit vs. Zwiki

General Features PmWiki WiGit Zwiki
Version
2.6.0
0.1
0.61
Last Release Date
2026-05-16 (28 days ago)
2008-07-21 (17 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-05-16 (28 days ago)
2009-07-09 (16 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Remko Tronçon
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
other
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Private users
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements PmWiki WiGit Zwiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Zope
Other Requirements
none
Git
Datastorage PmWiki WiGit Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
Plugin
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
Plugin
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
RCS
Plugin
No
Unknown
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Git repositories
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki WiGit Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
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.
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Patch
Development/Support PmWiki WiGit Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
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
Common Features PmWiki WiGit Zwiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
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
Unknown
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features PmWiki WiGit Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Optional
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
0
0
Email notification
Optional
No
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Flat
Categories
Yes
No
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Links PmWiki WiGit Zwiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
No
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features PmWiki WiGit Zwiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
No
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Optional
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Plugin
Usability PmWiki WiGit Zwiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Patch
Toolbar
Optional
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics PmWiki WiGit Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Optional
No
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Output PmWiki WiGit Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Optional
No
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
No
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki WiGit Zwiki
File Attachments
Optional
No
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras PmWiki WiGit Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki WiGit Zwiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[InternalLink]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
"External link":http://externallink.com
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
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
h1. Headline
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*Bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
_Italics_
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
+underlined+
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
@monospace@
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
^superscript^
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
~subscript~
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
!image.jpg!
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
>Right-aligned
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Bulleted
* List
** Sublist
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Numbered
# List
## Sublist
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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