Wiki CSharp .NET vs. WikkaWiki vs. wxWikiServer vs. Zwiki

General Features Wiki CSharp .NET WikkaWiki wxWikiServer Zwiki
Version
0.4.2
1.4.2
1.5.11c
0.61
Last Release Date
2009-12-31 (16 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-07 (15 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
2006-02-07 (20 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Pier-Luc Duchaine
Wikka Development Team
Ryan Norton
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL V3
GPL
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
GPLv2
Programming Language
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
PHP
C++
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
NA
0
Development status
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, small and big team
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
End users/Desktop
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements Wiki CSharp .NET WikkaWiki wxWikiServer Zwiki
Operating System
Windows
any (platform-independent)
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
built-in
Zope
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
None
Datastorage Wiki CSharp .NET WikkaWiki wxWikiServer Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
No
Unknown
Other
No
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki CSharp .NET WikkaWiki wxWikiServer Zwiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
unknown
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Patch
Development/Support Wiki CSharp .NET WikkaWiki wxWikiServer Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
42 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wiki CSharp .NET WikkaWiki wxWikiServer Zwiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
No
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Wiki CSharp .NET WikkaWiki wxWikiServer Zwiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
0
1
English
0
Email notification
Unknown
Patch
No
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Namespaces
Unknown
No
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Links Wiki CSharp .NET WikkaWiki wxWikiServer Zwiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Patch
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
No
No
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features Wiki CSharp .NET WikkaWiki wxWikiServer Zwiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
No
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
no
DTML
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability Wiki CSharp .NET WikkaWiki wxWikiServer Zwiki
Section Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Patch
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Statistics Wiki CSharp .NET WikkaWiki wxWikiServer Zwiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Patch
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Output Wiki CSharp .NET WikkaWiki wxWikiServer Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Plugin
No
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
Patch
No
Yes
PDF Export
Unknown
No
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wiki CSharp .NET WikkaWiki wxWikiServer Zwiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Extras Wiki CSharp .NET WikkaWiki wxWikiServer Zwiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiki CSharp .NET WikkaWiki wxWikiServer Zwiki
Internal Link
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
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 ==
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
Bold Format
*Bold*
**bold**
''' bold text '''
Italics Format
=Italic=
//italic//
'' italic text ''
Underline Format
_Underline_
__underlined__
Monospace Format
[|Monospace formate|]
##monospaced##
start line with blank space.
Strikethrough Format
-Strike-
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
[$Image file$]
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
] centred text
Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
Bulleted Lists
-list1
--list2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* one
* two
* two.1
Numbered Lists
#list1
##list2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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