Wiclear vs. WackoWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features Wiclear WackoWiki Zwiki
Version
1.0
6.2.1
0.61
Last Release Date
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
2026-03-03 (13 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
2026-03-03 (13 days ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
David Jobet
WackoWiki Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2
BSD
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements Wiclear WackoWiki Zwiki
Operating System
All
OS Independent
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Zope
Other Requirements
MySql
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Wiclear WackoWiki Zwiki
Text Files
No
No
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
Yes
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
Unknown
Other
MariaDB
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam Wiclear WackoWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Patch
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Patch
Development/Support Wiclear WackoWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
56 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wiclear WackoWiki 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
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiclear WackoWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Links Wiclear WackoWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Wiclear WackoWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Optional
Scripting
Not at the moment
actions (PHP)
DTML
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wiclear WackoWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Patch
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wiclear WackoWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output Wiclear WackoWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Patch
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Wiclear WackoWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Wiclear WackoWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiclear WackoWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
[Title]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[Title|http://url.to/]
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..
Headlines
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
Monospace Format
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
Images
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
((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
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
{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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