Zwiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
Version
0.61
1.32.2
6.2.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
Author
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv2
GPL
BSD
GPL
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
Any
System Requirements Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Zope
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
various opt. helpers
Datastorage Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Plugin
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
Yes
RCS
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Other
ZODB (zope object database)
No
MariaDB
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Patch
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
No
No
Development/Support Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
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 PhpWiki
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
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
Patch
Links Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Some
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
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Patch
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
No
No
No
Scripting
DTML
Optional
actions (PHP)
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Optional
Yes
Optional
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
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
Yes
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Output Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
No
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
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
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
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zwiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
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://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>below</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
: indented line
one
two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


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