WackoWiki vs. Zwiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Version
6.2.0
0.61
1.32.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2025-12-14 (today)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-12-13 (1 day ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPLv2
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
System Requirements WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Zope
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
various opt. helpers
Datastorage WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
No
Plugin
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SQLite
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
Yes
RCS
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Other
MariaDB
ZODB (zope object database)
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Optional
Patch
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Patch
No
No
Development/Support WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
54 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
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 Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
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
0
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Links WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Patch
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Optional
No
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
DTML
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Patch
Optional
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Output WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Patch
Unknown
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Patch
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Extras WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
No
Chat
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
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://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
one
two
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# list
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:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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