SubWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Wiki-Toolkit vs. XWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki Zwiki
Version
0.1-dev
6.2.1
0.72
18.2.0
0.61
Last Release Date
no official
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2006-08-31 (19 years ago)
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2006-12-05 (19 years ago)
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Greg Stein
WackoWiki Team
Dominic Hargreaves
XWiki Development Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Academic Free License
BSD
GPL/Artistic
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPLv2
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Perl
Java
Python
Data Storage
RCS
Database
Database
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
0
0
Development status
Alpha
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Wiki Developers
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Hosting Features SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki Zwiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki Zwiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Anything that runs Perl
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Anything with CGI support
Servlet 5.0+
Zope
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Other
No
MariaDB
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Plugin Interface
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
No
Optional
No
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
Patch
Development/Support SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki-toolkit on irc.perl.org
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
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
0
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
None
All
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
Unknown
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Scripting
None
actions (PHP)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
DTML
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Usability SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Patch
Toolbar
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Statistics SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Output SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples SubWiki WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.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 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
//Italics//
Underline Format
N/A
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospaced}}
##monospace##
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
N/A
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
N/A
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
N/A
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
Aligning Text
N/A
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
N/A
one
two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
N/A
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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