Wiki-Toolkit vs. Git-Wiki vs. WackoWiki vs. giewiki vs. Zwiki

General Features Wiki-Toolkit Git-Wiki WackoWiki giewiki Zwiki
Version
0.72
1.0
6.3.0
1.13.1
0.61
Last Release Date
2006-08-31 (19 years ago)
2026-07-18 (11 days ago)
2011-07-21 (15 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-12-05 (19 years ago)
2022-04-17 (4 years ago)
2026-07-18 (11 days ago)
2011-08-14 (14 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Dominic Hargreaves
WackoWiki Team
Poul Staugaard
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL/Artistic
MIT
BSD
new BSD License
GPLv2
Programming Language
Perl
Ruby
PHP
Python
Python
Data Storage
Database
RCS
Database
other
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Wiki Developers
Private, Public
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
community/personal
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements Wiki-Toolkit Git-Wiki WackoWiki giewiki Zwiki
Operating System
Anything that runs Perl
*nix
OS Independent
Windows/Mac/Linux
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything with CGI support
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Google App Engine or SDK
Zope
Other Requirements
Ruby
mod_rewrite (optional)
Python 2.5
Datastorage Wiki-Toolkit Git-Wiki WackoWiki giewiki Zwiki
Text Files
No
No
No
No
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Other
Git
MariaDB
App Engine
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki-Toolkit Git-Wiki WackoWiki giewiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Plugin Interface
Plugin system, backends can be added
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Google accounts
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Patch
Development/Support Wiki-Toolkit Git-Wiki WackoWiki giewiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki-toolkit on irc.perl.org
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
242 ⭐
55 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wiki-Toolkit Git-Wiki WackoWiki giewiki Zwiki
Preview
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki-Toolkit Git-Wiki WackoWiki giewiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
0
4
Czech, German, English, French
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
1
English
0
Email notification
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
No
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Namespaces
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Links Wiki-Toolkit Git-Wiki WackoWiki giewiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Syntax Features Wiki-Toolkit Git-Wiki WackoWiki giewiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Textile Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Patch
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Footnotes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
No
Optional
Scripting
XML based, Javascript
actions (PHP)
JavaScript
DTML
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability Wiki-Toolkit Git-Wiki WackoWiki giewiki Zwiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Toolbar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics Wiki-Toolkit Git-Wiki WackoWiki giewiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
Output Wiki-Toolkit Git-Wiki WackoWiki giewiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Patch
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Unknown
No
Patch
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wiki-Toolkit Git-Wiki WackoWiki giewiki Zwiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras Wiki-Toolkit Git-Wiki WackoWiki giewiki Zwiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiki-Toolkit Git-Wiki WackoWiki giewiki Zwiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
TiddlyWiki
[[Style library|StyleLib]]
[[Plugins|/Plugins]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[[http://example.org|The title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://appengine.google.com
[[AppEngine|http://appengine.google.com]]
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
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!Headline
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
''Bald''
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
//Italy//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__Undertow__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
{{{Courier}}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
--Sorry--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
256^^2^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Sub~~script~~
Images
{{Image.png}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>>
(Args: file [alignment] [width%])
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* One
* Two
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# One
# Two
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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