| General Features | WikiNi | ikiwiki | Zim | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.5.0
|
2.67
|
0.56
|
8.08.13
|
6.3.0
|
| Last Release Date |
2007-04-12 (19 years ago)
|
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
|
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
|
2008-08-13 (18 years ago)
|
2026-07-18 (1 month ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2009-02-10 (17 years ago)
|
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
|
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
|
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
|
2026-07-18 (1 month ago)
|
| Author |
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
|
Jaap Karssenberg
|
Yuri Takhteyev
|
WackoWiki Team
|
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
MIT/X
|
BSD
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Perl
|
Python
|
Lua
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
Files, RCS
|
Database, Files, RCS
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Anyone
|
Private users, small teams
|
Small teams or private users
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
| System Requirements | WikiNi | ikiwiki | Zim | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| Operating System |
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
|
Any
|
Linux, Windows, OSX
|
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
|
OS Independent
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any, or none
|
None
|
Apache, CGI, Xavante
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
|
| Other Requirements |
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
|
gcc or Lua
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
||
| Datastorage | WikiNi | ikiwiki | Zim | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
Text Files with index in SQLite
|
Git
|
MariaDB
|
||
| Security/Anti-Spam | WikiNi | ikiwiki | Zim | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
|
File permissions
|
Yes
|
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | WikiNi | ikiwiki | Zim | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel | |||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
55 ⭐
|
| Common Features | WikiNi | ikiwiki | Zim | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Restricted by Age
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | WikiNi | ikiwiki | Zim | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
1
French |
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 |
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian |
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 |
| Email notification |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
No
|
No
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
None
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | WikiNi | ikiwiki | Zim | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | WikiNi | ikiwiki | Zim | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Optional
|
None
|
Some
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
none
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Patch
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
|
None
|
Lua, JavaScript
|
actions (PHP)
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Patch
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Usability | WikiNi | ikiwiki | Zim | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Patch
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | WikiNi | ikiwiki | Zim | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Output | WikiNi | ikiwiki | Zim | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
No
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Auto-TOC |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| Media and Files | WikiNi | ikiwiki | Zim | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| File Attachments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
No
|
Contents
|
| Extras | WikiNi | ikiwiki | Zim | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| Syntax Examples | WikiNi | ikiwiki | Zim | Sputnik | WackoWiki |
| Internal Link |
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx) |
[[internal]] |
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage |
[[Sputnik]] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
| External Link |
[[ ]] |
[link text](http://example.org) |
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org ftp://somehost/share \\host\share\.. |
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org) |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
| Headlines |
====== ====== level 1 ===== ===== level 2 ==== ==== level 3 === === level 4 == == level 5 |
Two syntaxes: # heading 1 ## heading 2 ### heading 3 heading 1 ========= heading 2 --------- |
=== Heading === |
# Sputnik |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
| Bold Format |
** ** |
**bold** __bold__ |
**bold** |
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__ |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
// // |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
//italic// |
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_ |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
__ __ |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
|
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
## ## |
`inline monospace` indented block of monospaced text tab-indented block |
``monospace`` |
|
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
@@ @@ |
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
~~strike~~ |
|
--strikethrough-- |
| Superscript Format |
|
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
^{sup} |
|
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
|
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
_{sub} |
|
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
|
  |
{{./image.png}} |
|
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
| Aligning Text |
|
|
not implemented |
|
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
| Text Indentation |
[space] level 1 [space][space] level 2 [space][space][...] level X |
|
indent with tabs |
> Sputnik |
one two |
| Bulleted Lists |
- - - |
* item 1 * item 2 * item 2.1 * item 2.2 |
* List item * sub items * with indent |
* Sputnik |
*one **One-two *two *three |
| Numbered Lists |
1) 1) 1) |
1. item 1 2. item 2 1. item 1.1 42. the value doesn't matter 1. any value works |
1. List item a. with sub items b. ... |
1. Sputnik |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
| Definition Lists |
|
via HTML: <dl> <dt>term</dt> <dd>definition</dd> </dl> |
not implemented |
|
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html} |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
--- *** ___ ------------------ Any number > 3 - - - - - - - - - - spaces don't matter |
not implemented |
- - - |
---- |
| remove WikiNi | remove ikiwiki | remove Zim | remove Sputnik | remove WackoWiki |