Zwiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features Zwiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Version
0.61
1.45.3
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-06-03 (8 days ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv2
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
System Requirements Zwiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Zope
Any with PHP support
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Zwiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
Plugin
No
No
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
No
Oracle
Plugin
No
No
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
No
Other
ZODB (zope object database)
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam Zwiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Yes
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
Patch
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
No
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
No
Development/Support Zwiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features Zwiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Zwiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
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
0
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Patch
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Links Zwiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features Zwiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Patch
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
Unknown
No
Scripting
DTML
Optional
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability Zwiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Patch
Statistics Zwiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Yes
Patch
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Analysis
No
Optional
Yes
Output Zwiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Patch
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files Zwiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Extras Zwiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Zwiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
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]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
: indented line
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
Definition Lists
; term : definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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