ProntoWiki vs. Zwiki

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