Zwiki vs. WackoWiki vs. BrainKeeper

General Features Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Version
0.61
6.2.1
N/A
Last Release Date
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-04-25 (2 months ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
Author
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
WackoWiki Team
BrainKeeper, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
License
GPLv2
BSD
N/A
Programming Language
Python
PHP
N/A
Data Storage
Database
Database
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Hosting Features Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
None
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No Restrictions
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Operating System
any
OS Independent
N/A
Root Access
No
No
N/A
Webserver
Zope
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
N/A
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
N/A
Datastorage Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Text Files
Plugin
No
N/A
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
N/A
Oracle
Plugin
No
N/A
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
N/A
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
N/A
RCS
Unknown
No
N/A
Other
ZODB (zope object database)
MariaDB
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
N/A
Host Blocking
Patch
Optional
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Unknown
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
No
Development/Support Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
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 WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
0
34
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Flat
Flat
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
N/A
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Links Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
No
Unknown
Textile Support
No
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
Patch
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Patch
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Unknown
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
No
Yes
Scripting
DTML
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Output Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Patch
Patch
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zwiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Internal Link
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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..
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
one
two
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
{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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