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

General Features Wiki CSharp .NET WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Version
0.4.2
6.2.1
1.32.2
0.61
Last Release Date
2009-12-31 (16 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-07 (16 years ago)
2026-04-25 (5 days ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Pier-Luc Duchaine
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL V3
BSD
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, small and big team
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements Wiki CSharp .NET WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Operating System
Windows
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any with PHP support
Zope
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage Wiki CSharp .NET WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Plugin
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
No
Unknown
Other
MariaDB
No
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki CSharp .NET WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Patch
Development/Support Wiki CSharp .NET WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wiki CSharp .NET WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki CSharp .NET WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
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
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links Wiki CSharp .NET WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Wiki CSharp .NET WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional
DTML
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Wiki CSharp .NET WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Patch
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wiki CSharp .NET WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
Output Wiki CSharp .NET WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Patch
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wiki CSharp .NET WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras Wiki CSharp .NET WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
No
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiki CSharp .NET WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
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..
Headlines
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
*Bold*
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
=Italic=
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
_Underline_
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
[|Monospace formate|]
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
-Strike-
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[$Image file$]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
one
two
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
-list1
--list2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
#list1
##list2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# 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
Horizontal Rule
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