| General Features | Zwiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.61
|
1.32.2
|
6.2.0
|
phpwiki-1.3.14
|
5.2
|
| 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)
|
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)
|
2009-04-03 (16 years 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
|
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
|
Atlassian
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| License |
GPLv2
|
GPL
|
BSD
|
GPL
|
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
|
| Programming Language |
Python
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
Java
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Database
|
Database, Files, RCS
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
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
|
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
| Hosting Features | Zwiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Unlimited
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Optional
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
| System Requirements | Zwiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| Operating System |
any
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
OS Independent
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Zope
|
Any with PHP support
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
Apache Tomcat
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
various opt. helpers
|
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
|
|
| Datastorage | Zwiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| Text Files |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RCS |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
ZODB (zope object database)
|
No
|
MariaDB
|
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Zwiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
|
Yes
|
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
|
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
| Host Blocking |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Zwiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel |
#zwiki on freenode
|
#phpwiki
|
|||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
54 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | Zwiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Zwiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
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 |
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
|
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Links | Zwiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | Zwiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Some
|
All
|
Some
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Patch
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
DTML
|
Optional
|
actions (PHP)
|
plugins, templates, PHP
|
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Zwiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Patch
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | Zwiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Output | Zwiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Unknown
|
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Zwiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Keywords
|
Contents
|
No
|
Contents
|
| Extras | Zwiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Zwiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| Internal Link |
WikiName [freeform name] [[double-bracketed]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
WikiWord or [somelink] [ desc | pagename ] |
[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://someserver/someurl [ desc | exturl ] |
[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 ====== |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
| Bold Format |
|
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
*bold* or <strong>bold</strong> |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
|
''italic'' |
//italics// |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
_italics_ |
| Underline Format |
|
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
+underline+ |
| Monospace Format |
|
<tt>monospace</tt> |
##monospace## |
<tt>monospace</tt> <code>code</code> <pre>preformatted</pre> <verbatim> unparsed text</verbatim> |
{{monospace}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
<s>strikethrough</s> |
--strikethrough-- |
<strike>striked through</strike> |
-strikethrough- |
| Superscript Format |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>above</sup> |
^superscript^ |
| Subscript Format |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
vvsubscriptvv |
<sub>below</sub> |
~subscript~ |
| 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 |
* 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 |
# list |
# 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} |
Term:<def> def |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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