DokuWiki vs. Zim vs. ikiwiki vs. Hatta

General Features DokuWiki Zim ikiwiki Hatta
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
0.56
2.67
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (1 year ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2008-10-17 (18 years ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (6 months ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Jaap Karssenberg
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL v2
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Private users, small teams
Anyone
System Requirements DokuWiki Zim ikiwiki Hatta
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OSX
Any
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
None
Any, or none
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Mercurial
Datastorage DokuWiki Zim ikiwiki Hatta
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other
None
Text Files with index in SQLite
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Zim ikiwiki Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
File permissions
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
n/a
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
No
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Zim ikiwiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
4726 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Zim ikiwiki Hatta
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features DokuWiki Zim ikiwiki Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
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
1
English
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
Optional
No
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
No
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Links DokuWiki Zim ikiwiki Hatta
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki Zim ikiwiki Hatta
HTML Tags
Optional
None
Optional
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Tables
simple
none
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
No
No
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
None
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Usability DokuWiki Zim ikiwiki Hatta
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
No
Statistics DokuWiki Zim ikiwiki Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
No
Output DokuWiki Zim ikiwiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki Zim ikiwiki Hatta
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Optional
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Optional
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki Zim ikiwiki Hatta
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Unknown
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Zim ikiwiki Hatta
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
[[internal]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
[link text](http://example.org)
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
=== Heading ===
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
//italic//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
n/a
Monospace Format
''monospace''
``monospace``
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
~~strike~~
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
n/a
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^{sup}
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
n/a
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
_{sub}
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
n/a
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{./image.png}}
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
not implemented
n/a
Text Indentation
N/A
indent with tabs
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* list
** sublist
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
n/a
Definition Lists
Plugin
not implemented
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
n/a
Horizontal Rule
----
not implemented
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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