DokuWiki vs. Zim vs. Git-Wiki

General Features DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.56
1.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2012-04-02 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
2022-04-17 (3 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
MIT
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Ruby
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Private users, small teams
Private, Public
System Requirements DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OSX
*nix
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
None
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Other Requirements
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Ruby
Datastorage DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
None
Text Files with index in SQLite
Git
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
File permissions
Plugin system, backends can be added
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
No
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4578 ⭐
N/A
242 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki
Preview
Yes
No
Plugin
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
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
4
Czech, German, English, French
Email notification
Optional
No
No
Comments
Plugin
No
No
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
No
No
Links DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
No
Plugin
Syntax Features DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki
HTML Tags
Optional
None
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Plugin
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
None
XML based, Javascript
Content Includes
Plugin
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Usability DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Output DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
[[http://example.org|The title]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
=== Heading ===
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
//italic//
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
``monospace``
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
~~strike~~
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^{sup}
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
_{sub}
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{./image.png}}
{{Image.png}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
not implemented
Text Indentation
N/A
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
----
not implemented
----
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