alphawiki vs. Friki vs. WiGit vs. Wiki on a Stick vs. Zim

General Features alphawiki Friki WiGit Wiki on a Stick Zim
Version
v.20160608
2.1.1
0.1
0.12.0
0.56
Last Release Date
2016-08-06 (9 years ago)
2004-05-14 (22 years ago)
2008-07-21 (17 years ago)
2010-06-21 (15 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-09-10 (9 years ago)
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
2009-07-09 (16 years ago)
2010-08-24 (15 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
marty alain
Frank Carver
Remko Tronçon
legolas558
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU-GPL
ASL or LGPL
GPL
GPLv2
GPL
Programming Language
PHP+Javascript
Java
PHP
JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
other
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users, small teams
private users and small teams
Private users
Advanced End Users
Private users, small teams
System Requirements alphawiki Friki WiGit Wiki on a Stick Zim
Operating System
probably every OS
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
OS Independent (Browser Application)
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache with PHP support
Any that can run or call Java
None
Other Requirements
Java 1.3 or later
Git
JavaScript-capable browser
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage alphawiki Friki WiGit Wiki on a Stick Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
None
Git repositories
Self-modifying XHTML file, can export into XHTML and WSIF
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam alphawiki Friki WiGit Wiki on a Stick Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
No
No
No
Authentication Backends
No
Supports per-page AES encryption
File permissions
Host Blocking
No
Patch
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
No
No
nofollow
No
Optional
No
No
No
Blacklist
No
No
No
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
No
Development/Support alphawiki Friki WiGit Wiki on a Stick Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features alphawiki Friki WiGit Wiki on a Stick Zim
Preview
Yes
No
No
No
No
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Change Summary
No
No
Yes
No
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features alphawiki Friki WiGit Wiki on a Stick Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
0
0
2
English, Italian
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
No
No
No
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
No
No
No
Categories
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Links alphawiki Friki WiGit Wiki on a Stick Zim
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Features alphawiki Friki WiGit Wiki on a Stick Zim
HTML Tags
Optional
None
Some
All
None
Math formulas
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Optional
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Optional
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
No
No
No
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Scripting
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
JavaScript
None
Content Includes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
No
No
No
No
Usability alphawiki Friki WiGit Wiki on a Stick Zim
Section Editing
Optional
No
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
No
No
No
Statistics alphawiki Friki WiGit Wiki on a Stick Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
No
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Output alphawiki Friki WiGit Wiki on a Stick Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
No
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
No
No
No
No
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
No
No
Abbreviations
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
No
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
No
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files alphawiki Friki WiGit Wiki on a Stick Zim
File Attachments
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
No
No
No
Image Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
No
Filenames only
No
Extras alphawiki Friki WiGit Wiki on a Stick Zim
Calendar
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Blogs
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
No
Optional
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples alphawiki Friki WiGit Wiki on a Stick Zim
Internal Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
[InternalLink]
[[WoaS test page]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
"External link":http://externallink.com
[[http://stickwiki.sf.net/|WoaS Official Website]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
h1. Headline
= Header 1
== Header 2
=== Header 3
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
{b I am bold}
'''bold''
*Bold*
*bold text*
**bold**
Italics Format
{i I am italic}
''italic''
_Italics_
/italics text/
//italic//
Underline Format
{u I am underline}
+underlined+
_underlined text_
__underline__
Monospace Format
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
monospace
@monospace@
{{{this text will not render wiki syntax}}}
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
{del I am line-through}
-strikethrough-
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
E = mc{sup 2}
^superscript^
^{sup}
Subscript Format
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
~subscript~
_{sub}
Images
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
!image.jpg!
[[Image::woas.png]]
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
{center I am centered}
>Right-aligned
not implemented
Text Indentation
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
:        indented
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
* first
* second
* Bulleted
* List
** Sublist
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
1. first
1. second
# Numbered
# List
## Sublist
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
title:        description
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
{hr}
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not implemented
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