Wiki CSharp .NET vs. MediaWiki vs. Zim vs. WackoWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki Zwiki
Version
0.4.2
1.32.2
0.56
6.2.1
0.61
Last Release Date
2009-12-31 (16 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2012-04-02 (13 years ago)
2026-03-03 (13 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-07 (15 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
2026-03-03 (13 days ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Pier-Luc Duchaine
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Jaap Karssenberg
WackoWiki Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL V3
GPL
GPL
BSD
GPLv2
Programming Language
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
PHP
Python
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, small and big team
End Users/Desktop, Education
Private users, small teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki Zwiki
Operating System
Windows
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OSX
OS Independent
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
None
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Zope
Other Requirements
none
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Other
No
Text Files with index in SQLite
MariaDB
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
File permissions
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Optional
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Patch
Development/Support Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
56 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki Zwiki
Preview
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
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
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
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
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Flat
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Links Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
None
All
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
No
Optional
Scripting
Optional
None
actions (PHP)
DTML
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Patch
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Output Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
No
Patch
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Patch
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiki CSharp .NET MediaWiki Zim WackoWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
[http://example.org The title]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
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
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
=== Heading ===
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
*Bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
=Italic=
''italic''
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
_Underline_
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
[|Monospace formate|]
<tt>monospace</tt>
``monospace``
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
-Strike-
<s>strikethrough</s>
~~strike~~
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^{sup}
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
_{sub}
,,subscript,,
Images
[$Image file$]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{./image.png}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
not implemented
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
: indented line
indent with tabs
one
two
Bulleted Lists
-list1
--list2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
#list1
##list2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
; term : definition
not implemented
{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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not implemented
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