Zwiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Version
0.61
1.32.2
6.2.1
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (4 days ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (4 days ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
Author
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv2
GPL
BSD
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
Python
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
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
small + medium sites, development teams
System Requirements Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Operating System
any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Zope
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Text Files
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Oracle
Plugin
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
RCS
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Other
ZODB (zope object database)
No
MariaDB
no
Security/Anti-Spam Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
Patch
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
No
Patch
Development/Support Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
56 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Patch
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Patch
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
No
No
Yes
Scripting
DTML
Optional
actions (PHP)
optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Optional
Yes
Patch
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Output Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Patch
Optional
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Patch
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
Blogs
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
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://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
''ialic text''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
optional or via css
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
optional or via css
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
optional or via css
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
optional or via css
Text Indentation
: indented line
one
two
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

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