ErfurtWiki vs. Instiki vs. Zim

General Features ErfurtWiki Instiki Zim
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
0.30.0
0.56
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (21 years ago)
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
Ruby's
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Ruby on Rails
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
general, education
Private users, small teams
System Requirements ErfurtWiki Instiki Zim
Operating System
any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
None
Other Requirements
none
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage ErfurtWiki Instiki Zim
Text Files
Plugin
No
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
no
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki Instiki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
File permissions
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Unknown
No
nofollow
Plugin
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Unknown
No
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Unknown
No
Development/Support ErfurtWiki Instiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
506 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ErfurtWiki Instiki Zim
Preview
Yes
No
No
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
No
Change Summary
Plugin
No
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features ErfurtWiki Instiki Zim
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
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
Plugin
No
No
Comments
Plugin
No
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
No
No
Links ErfurtWiki Instiki Zim
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki Instiki Zim
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
None
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
optional
None
None
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
No
Usability ErfurtWiki Instiki Zim
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics ErfurtWiki Instiki Zim
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
Optional
No
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Output ErfurtWiki Instiki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
No
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Optional
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Optional
No
No
PDF Export
Optional
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ErfurtWiki Instiki Zim
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
No
Extras ErfurtWiki Instiki Zim
Calendar
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki Instiki Zim
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[another site](http://example.com)
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''ialic text''
_italic_, *italic*
//italic//
Underline Format
optional or via css
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
__underline__
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
`monospace`
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^{sup}
Subscript Format
optional or via css
<sub>subscript</sub>
_{sub}
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
optional or via css
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
not implemented
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
term
: definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
----
***
not implemented
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