Friki vs. ikiwiki vs. Instiki vs. WikkaWiki vs. Zim

General Features Friki ikiwiki Instiki WikkaWiki Zim
Version
2.1.1
2.67
0.30.0
1.4.2
0.56
Last Release Date
2004-05-14 (21 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Frank Carver
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Wikka Development Team
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
ASL or LGPL
GPL
Ruby's
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Perl
Ruby on Rails
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users and small teams
Anyone
general, education
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Private users, small teams
System Requirements Friki ikiwiki Instiki WikkaWiki Zim
Operating System
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
any (platform-independent)
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any that can run or call Java
Any, or none
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
any server with PHP/MySQL support
None
Other Requirements
Java 1.3 or later
Ruby 2.0-2.6
mod_rewrite (optional)
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage Friki ikiwiki Instiki WikkaWiki Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Other
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
No
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam Friki ikiwiki Instiki WikkaWiki Zim
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Active Directory (patch)
File permissions
Host Blocking
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Unknown
No
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support Friki ikiwiki Instiki WikkaWiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
506 ⭐
42 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Friki ikiwiki Instiki WikkaWiki Zim
Preview
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Friki ikiwiki Instiki WikkaWiki Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
1
English
1
English
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
No
Yes
No
Patch
No
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
No
Threaded
No
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Links Friki ikiwiki Instiki WikkaWiki Zim
CamelCase
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Patch
No
Syntax Features Friki ikiwiki Instiki WikkaWiki Zim
HTML Tags
None
Optional
All
Some
None
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
Optional
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
No
No
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
None
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
None
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Usability Friki ikiwiki Instiki WikkaWiki Zim
Section Editing
No
No
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Patch
No
Statistics Friki ikiwiki Instiki WikkaWiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Patch
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Patch
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Yes
No
Output Friki ikiwiki Instiki WikkaWiki Zim
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Patch
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files Friki ikiwiki Instiki WikkaWiki Zim
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
No
Yes
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
No
No
Extras Friki ikiwiki Instiki WikkaWiki Zim
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
No
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Friki ikiwiki Instiki WikkaWiki Zim
Internal Link
[[internal]]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
[another site](http://example.com)
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
'''bold''
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
_italic_, *italic*
//italic//
//italic//
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
monospace
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
`monospace`
##monospaced##
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
++Strike through text++
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
^{sup}
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
_{sub}
Images
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
not implemented
Text Indentation
:        indented
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* first
* second
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
1. first
1. second
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
title:        description
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
term
: definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
***
----
not implemented
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