ProntoWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features ProntoWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Version
1.0.1
6.2.1
0.61
Last Release Date
2026-04-30 (today)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2026-04-25 (5 days ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Clay Alberty
WackoWiki Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
BSD
GPLv2
Programming Language
C#
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements ProntoWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Operating System
Windows
OS Independent
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS 5+
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Zope
Other Requirements
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage ProntoWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
Plugin
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Unknown
No
Plugin
Oracle
Unknown
No
Plugin
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
Unknown
RCS
Unknown
No
Unknown
Other
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
MariaDB
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam ProntoWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
.NET Membership platform
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Patch
Development/Support ProntoWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ProntoWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProntoWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
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
0
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Flat
Flat
Categories
Optional
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Links ProntoWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features ProntoWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
No
Footnotes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Optional
Scripting
actions (PHP)
DTML
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability ProntoWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics ProntoWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output ProntoWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Unknown
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Patch
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files ProntoWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Extras ProntoWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProntoWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
[pagename]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
{title|url}
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
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 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
//italics//
Underline Format
__under__
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<<super>> (using custom tags)
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
,,subscript,,
Images
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
available through custom tags
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
one
two
Bulleted Lists
+
++
+++
++++
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
#
##
###
####
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
{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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