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

General Features Wiki CSharp .NET Zim WackoWiki MediaWiki
Version
0.4.2
0.56
6.2.1
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2009-12-31 (16 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-07 (16 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
2026-04-25 (5 days ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
Author
Pier-Luc Duchaine
Jaap Karssenberg
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL V3
GPL
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, small and big team
Private users, small teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements Wiki CSharp .NET Zim WackoWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Windows
Linux, Windows, OSX
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
None
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage Wiki CSharp .NET Zim WackoWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
Text Files with index in SQLite
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki CSharp .NET Zim WackoWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
No
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
File permissions
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
No
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support Wiki CSharp .NET Zim WackoWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wiki CSharp .NET Zim WackoWiki MediaWiki
Preview
No
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Plugin
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 Zim WackoWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
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
Email notification
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Comments
No
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Links Wiki CSharp .NET Zim WackoWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wiki CSharp .NET Zim WackoWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
None
All
Some
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
none
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
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
No
Scripting
None
actions (PHP)
Optional
Content Includes
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wiki CSharp .NET Zim WackoWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wiki CSharp .NET Zim WackoWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
No
Plugin
Optional
Output Wiki CSharp .NET Zim WackoWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Unknown
No
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Wiki CSharp .NET Zim WackoWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Extras Wiki CSharp .NET Zim WackoWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Optional
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiki CSharp .NET Zim WackoWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
=== Heading ===
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
*Bold*
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
=Italic=
//italic//
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
_Underline_
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
[|Monospace formate|]
``monospace``
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
-Strike-
~~strike~~
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^{sup}
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
_{sub}
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[$Image file$]
{{./image.png}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
not implemented
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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


# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
not implemented
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
___
not implemented
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