ikiwiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Wiclear vs. WikiASP vs. WikiNi vs. Zwiki

General Features ikiwiki JSPWiki Wiclear WikiASP WikiNi Zwiki
Version
2.67
2.11.0
1.0
1.6.2
0.5.0
0.61
Last Release Date
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2007-08-06 (16 years ago)
2005-10-12 (18 years ago)
2007-04-11 (17 years ago)
2008-10-27 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2007-09-16 (16 years ago)
2006-08-26 (17 years ago)
2009-02-09 (15 years ago)
2008-10-30 (15 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Apache Software Foundation
David Jobet
Elrey Ronald V.
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Apache License 2.0
GPL2
FREE
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
Perl
Java
PHP
ASP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
all
private users
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
End Users/Desktop, Education
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements ikiwiki JSPWiki Wiclear WikiASP WikiNi Zwiki
Operating System
Any
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
All
Windows
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache
IIS
Zope
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
MySql
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
Datastorage ikiwiki JSPWiki Wiclear WikiASP WikiNi Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
MySQL
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
MS Access DB
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki JSPWiki Wiclear WikiASP WikiNi Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
Patch
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Patch
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Patch
Development/Support ikiwiki JSPWiki Wiclear WikiASP WikiNi Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ikiwiki JSPWiki Wiclear WikiASP WikiNi Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ikiwiki JSPWiki Wiclear WikiASP WikiNi Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
0
1
French
0
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Patch
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Links ikiwiki JSPWiki Wiclear WikiASP WikiNi Zwiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features ikiwiki JSPWiki Wiclear WikiASP WikiNi Zwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Not at the moment
DTML
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Usability ikiwiki JSPWiki Wiclear WikiASP WikiNi Zwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Patch
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics ikiwiki JSPWiki Wiclear WikiASP WikiNi Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Output ikiwiki JSPWiki Wiclear WikiASP WikiNi Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ikiwiki JSPWiki Wiclear WikiASP WikiNi Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Unknown
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
No
No
Filenames only
Extras ikiwiki JSPWiki Wiclear WikiASP WikiNi Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ikiwiki JSPWiki Wiclear WikiASP WikiNi Zwiki
Internal Link
[[internal]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[Title]
WikiWord
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[Title|http://url.to/]
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com]
[[ ]]
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..
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
====== ====== level 1
===== ===== level 2
==== ==== level 3
=== === level 4
== == level 5

Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
__bold__
__bold__
'''BoldFormat'''

{bold}BoldFormat{/b}
** **
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italics''
''italic''
''The quotation''
// //
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__ __
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
{{monospace}}
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
<space char here>This is mono
## ##
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
_This is Strike Through_
@@ @@
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
image:http://wite/image/icon.jpg

image:local:icon.jpg
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
>Indent 1
>>Indent2
[space] level 1
[space][space] level 2
[space][space][...] level X
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
* Test
* Bullets
-
-
-
Numbered Lists
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
1. Test Numeer
1. Test Two

1)
1)
1)
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
;term:definition
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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