TWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Wiclear vs. Zim

General Features TWiki WackoWiki Wiclear Zim
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
6.2.1
1.0
0.56
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
WackoWiki Team
David Jobet
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL2
GPL
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
private users
Private users, small teams
System Requirements TWiki WackoWiki Wiclear Zim
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
OS Independent
All
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache
None
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
MySql
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage TWiki WackoWiki Wiclear Zim
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki WackoWiki Wiclear Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
File permissions
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
No
No
Development/Support TWiki WackoWiki Wiclear Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features TWiki WackoWiki Wiclear 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
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TWiki WackoWiki Wiclear Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Flat
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Links TWiki WackoWiki Wiclear Zim
CamelCase
Yes
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
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Syntax Features TWiki WackoWiki Wiclear Zim
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
none
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
Not at the moment
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability TWiki WackoWiki Wiclear Zim
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics TWiki WackoWiki Wiclear Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Output TWiki WackoWiki Wiclear Zim
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Patch
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki WackoWiki Wiclear Zim
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
No
Extras TWiki WackoWiki Wiclear Zim
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki WackoWiki Wiclear Zim
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[Title]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[Title|http://url.to/]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
//italics//
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^{sup}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
_{sub}
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
not implemented
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
one
two
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
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}
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
---
----
not implemented
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