PmWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features PmWiki Zwiki
Version
2.3.33
0.61
Last Release Date
2024-04-20 (18 days ago)
2008-10-27 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-21 (17 days ago)
2008-10-30 (15 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements PmWiki Zwiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Zope
Other Requirements
none
Datastorage PmWiki Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
Plugin
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
Plugin
SQLite
Plugin
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
RCS
Plugin
Unknown
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Optional
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Patch
Development/Support PmWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features PmWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Links PmWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features PmWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Optional
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Usability PmWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Patch
Toolbar
Optional
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Statistics PmWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Output PmWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras PmWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
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
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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