Zwiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Confluence

General Features Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Confluence
Version
0.61
1.32.2
6.2.0
5.2
Last Release Date
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
Author
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
License
GPLv2
GPL
BSD
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
Python
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Confluence
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Optional
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Confluence
Operating System
any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Zope
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Confluence
Text Files
Plugin
No
No
No
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
No
No
Other
ZODB (zope object database)
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
Patch
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
No
No
Development/Support Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Confluence
# 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
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Confluence
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
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 Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
0
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
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
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Confluence
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Confluence
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Patch
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
No
No
Yes
Scripting
DTML
Optional
actions (PHP)
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Confluence
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Optional
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Output Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Confluence
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Confluence
Internal Link
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
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..
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
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
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
~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 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# one
## one-two
# two
# three
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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