| General Features | DokuWiki | Wala Wiki | Zim |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
|
1.1.7
|
0.56
|
| Last Release Date |
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
|
2026-03-24 (5 months ago)
|
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
|
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
|
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
|
| Author |
Andreas Gohr
|
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
|
Jaap Karssenberg
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL 2
|
Public Domain
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Perl
|
Python
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Files
|
Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
Free
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
personal, small to medium companies
|
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
|
Private users, small teams
|
| System Requirements | DokuWiki | Wala Wiki | Zim |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Linux, *BSD
|
Linux, Windows, OSX
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Any that supports basic CGI.
|
None
|
| Other Requirements |
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
|
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
|
|
| Datastorage | DokuWiki | Wala Wiki | 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
|
diffs
|
Text Files with index in SQLite
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | DokuWiki | Wala Wiki | Zim |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
|
File permissions
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | DokuWiki | Wala Wiki | Zim |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
4707 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | DokuWiki | Wala Wiki | Zim |
| Preview |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
To current
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | DokuWiki | Wala Wiki | Zim |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
No
|
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 |
1
English |
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
|
Flat
|
No
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Not available
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Links | DokuWiki | Wala Wiki | Zim |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | DokuWiki | Wala Wiki | Zim |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
None
|
None
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple
|
none
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Custom styles |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
None
|
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Usability | DokuWiki | Wala Wiki | 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
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | DokuWiki | Wala Wiki | 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
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Output | DokuWiki | Wala Wiki | Zim |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
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 | Wala Wiki | Zim |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
No
|
No
|
| Extras | DokuWiki | Wala Wiki | 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 | Wala Wiki | Zim |
| Internal Link |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
LinkDump, [link dump] |
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage |
| External Link |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3] |
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org ftp://somehost/share \\host\share\.. |
| Headlines |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
= headline = |
=== Heading === |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
'''bolded''' |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
''italicized'' |
//italic// |
| Underline Format |
__underlined__ |
|
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
''monospace'' |
monospaced. |
``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://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include. |
{{./image.png}} |
| Aligning Text |
Plugin |
|
not implemented |
| Text Indentation |
N/A |
:Block-quoted text. |
indent with tabs |
| Bulleted Lists |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Bullet point * Bullet point |
* List item * sub items * with indent |
| Numbered Lists |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
# One # Two # Three |
1. List item a. with sub items b. ... |
| Definition Lists |
Plugin |
|
not implemented |
| Horizontal Rule |
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not implemented |
| remove DokuWiki | remove Wala Wiki | remove Zim |