WackoWiki vs. Confluence vs. Zwiki

General Features WackoWiki Confluence Zwiki
Version
6.2.1
5.2
0.61
Last Release Date
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Atlassian
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
Yes
License
BSD
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise + Technical Teams
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Hosting Features WackoWiki Confluence Zwiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
No
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Optional
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements WackoWiki Confluence Zwiki
Operating System
OS Independent
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache Tomcat
Zope
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage WackoWiki Confluence Zwiki
Text Files
No
No
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
No
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
Yes
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
Unknown
Other
MariaDB
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki Confluence Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Patch
Development/Support WackoWiki Confluence Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
55 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki Confluence Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki Confluence Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
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
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links WackoWiki Confluence Zwiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Optional
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features WackoWiki Confluence Zwiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Optional
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability WackoWiki Confluence Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics WackoWiki Confluence Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
Output WackoWiki Confluence Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Patch
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Patch
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki Confluence Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras WackoWiki Confluence Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki Confluence Zwiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
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 ======
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
//italics//
_italics_
Underline Format
__underline__
+underline+
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
~subscript~
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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


# one
## one-two
# two
# three
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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