DokuWiki vs. Friki vs. Zim

General Features DokuWiki Friki Zim
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.1.1
0.56
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (1 year ago)
2004-05-14 (22 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Frank Carver
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
ASL or LGPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
private users and small teams
Private users, small teams
System Requirements DokuWiki Friki Zim
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any that can run or call Java
None
Other Requirements
Java 1.3 or later
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage DokuWiki Friki Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
None
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Friki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
No
No
ACL
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
File permissions
Host Blocking
Plugin
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Optional
No
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Friki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4708 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Friki Zim
Preview
Yes
No
No
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Friki Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
68
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
0
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
Optional
No
No
Comments
Plugin
No
No
Categories
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
No
Links DokuWiki Friki Zim
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Optional
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Unknown
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki Friki Zim
HTML Tags
Optional
None
None
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
complex
none
CREOLE support
Plugin
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Optional
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Optional
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Optional
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
No
Footnotes
Yes
No
No
Quoting
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
None
Content Includes
Plugin
No
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
No
Usability DokuWiki Friki Zim
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics DokuWiki Friki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Output DokuWiki Friki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki Friki Zim
File Attachments
Yes
No
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
No
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
Extras DokuWiki Friki Zim
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
No
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Friki Zim
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
monospace
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^{sup}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
_{sub}
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
not implemented
Text Indentation
N/A
:        indented
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* first
* second
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. first
1. second
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
Plugin
title:        description
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
----
not implemented
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