WikyBlog vs. Confluence vs. Zwiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features WikyBlog Confluence Zwiki WackoWiki
Version
1.5.4
5.2
0.61
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2007-10-24 (18 years ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2007-10-24 (18 years ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Author
Josh Schmidt
Atlassian
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPLv2
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, Internet Communities
Enterprise + Technical Teams
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features WikyBlog Confluence Zwiki WackoWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Optional
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements WikyBlog Confluence Zwiki WackoWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
any
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, anything with PHP
Apache Tomcat
Zope
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
MySQL
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage WikyBlog Confluence Zwiki WackoWiki
Text Files
No
No
Plugin
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
No
Unknown
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
No
Unknown
No
Other
ZODB (zope object database)
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam WikyBlog Confluence Zwiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Patch
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Patch
No
Development/Support WikyBlog Confluence Zwiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features WikyBlog Confluence Zwiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikyBlog Confluence Zwiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
5
English, French, Japanese, Turkish, Chinese
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Links WikyBlog Confluence Zwiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features WikyBlog Confluence Zwiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Optional
No
Scripting
No
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
DTML
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability WikyBlog Confluence Zwiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Patch
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics WikyBlog Confluence Zwiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Output WikyBlog Confluence Zwiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Unknown
Patch
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
Patch
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files WikyBlog Confluence Zwiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras WikyBlog Confluence Zwiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples WikyBlog Confluence Zwiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
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..
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
+underline+
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
: indented line
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


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