LionWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features LionWiki DokuWiki Zwiki
Version
3.2.4
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.61
Last Release Date
2010-09-19 (13 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2008-10-27 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-01 (13 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2008-10-30 (15 years ago)
Author
Adam Živnéř
Andreas Gohr
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
GPL 2
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
advanced users, minimalists
personal, small to medium companies
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements LionWiki DokuWiki Zwiki
Operating System
All PHP supported
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Zope
Other Requirements
Datastorage LionWiki DokuWiki Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
Unknown
Other
None
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam LionWiki DokuWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Patch
Development/Support LionWiki DokuWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features LionWiki DokuWiki Zwiki
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
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features LionWiki DokuWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional
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Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Categories
No
Plugin
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Unknown
Links LionWiki DokuWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features LionWiki DokuWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Optional
Scripting
JavaScript (plugin)
Optional, PHP
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability LionWiki DokuWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics LionWiki DokuWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output LionWiki DokuWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files LionWiki DokuWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras LionWiki DokuWiki Zwiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples LionWiki DokuWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
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
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
'''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
//italics//
Underline Format
'__underline__'
__underlined__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
'--strikethrough--'
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[path_to_img.jpg]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
Text Indentation
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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