| General Features | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
6.3.0
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1.45.3
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0.61
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2.7.4
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| Last Release Date |
2026-07-18 (1 month ago)
|
2025-12-04 (8 months ago)
|
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
|
2026-07-31 (25 days ago)
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| Last Update here |
2026-07-18 (1 month ago)
|
2026-06-03 (2 months ago)
|
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
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2026-07-31 (25 days ago)
|
| Author |
WackoWiki Team
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
BSD
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GPL
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GPLv2
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GPL2+
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| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
Python
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Database
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
|
All
|
| System Requirements | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| Operating System |
OS Independent
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
any
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
Any with PHP support
|
Zope
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
|
| Other Requirements |
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
none
|
none
|
|
| Datastorage | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
MariaDB
|
No
|
ZODB (zope object database)
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
Yes
|
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
|
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
|
| Host Blocking |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
#zwiki on freenode
|
|||
| Stars on GitHub |
55 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Interface Languages |
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 |
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
0
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Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Links | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Some
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
actions (PHP)
|
Optional
|
DTML
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Output | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
Patch
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | Zwiki | PmWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
WikiName [freeform name] [[double-bracketed]] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
| External Link |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
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.. |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
| Headlines |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
|
! Level 1 !!#anchor Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
|
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
|
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
|
{+underlined+} |
| Monospace Format |
##monospace## |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
|
@@monospace@@ |
| Strikethrough Format |
--strikethrough-- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
|
{-strikethrough-} |
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
'^superscript^' |
| Subscript Format |
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
'_subscript_' |
| Images |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
|
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
| Aligning Text |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
<center>Centered</center> |
|
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
| Text Indentation |
one two |
: indented line |
|
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
| Bulleted Lists |
*one **One-two *two *three |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html} |
; term : definition |
|
: term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| remove WackoWiki | remove MediaWiki | remove Zwiki | remove PmWiki |