| General Features | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.1.1
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0.30.0
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1.45.3
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0.56
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| Last Release Date |
2004-05-14 (22 years ago)
|
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
|
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
|
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
|
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
|
2026-06-03 (17 days ago)
|
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
|
| Author |
Frank Carver
|
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Jaap Karssenberg
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
ASL or LGPL
|
Ruby's
|
GPL
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GPL
|
| Programming Language |
Java
|
Ruby on Rails
|
PHP
|
Python
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Database
|
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
private users and small teams
|
general, education
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Private users, small teams
|
| System Requirements | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| Operating System |
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux, Windows, OSX
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any that can run or call Java
|
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
|
Any with PHP support
|
None
|
| Other Requirements |
Java 1.3 or later
|
Ruby 2.0-2.6
|
none
|
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
|
| Datastorage | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
|
No
|
Text Files with index in SQLite
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ACL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
File permissions
|
||
| Host Blocking |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
506 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| Preview |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
1
English |
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
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
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Comments |
No
|
No
|
Discussion Pages
|
No
|
| Categories |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
None
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Links | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| HTML Tags |
None
|
All
|
Some
|
None
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
none
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Scripting |
None
|
Optional
|
None
|
|
| Content Includes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Usability | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Output | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| Printer Friendly |
No
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| File Attachments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
No
|
No
|
Keywords
|
No
|
| Extras | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| Internal Link |
|
[[Some Page]] [[Some Page|anchor text]] [[Some Page#anchor]] [[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage |
| External Link |
|
[another site](http://example.com) |
[http://example.org The title] |
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org ftp://somehost/share \\host\share\.. |
| Headlines |
|
#Level 1# ##Level 2## ###Level 3### ####Level 4#### #####Level 5##### ######Level 6###### |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
=== Heading === |
| Bold Format |
'''bold'' |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
_italic_, *italic* |
''italic'' |
//italic// |
| Underline Format |
|
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'} |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
monospace |
`monospace` |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
``monospace`` |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'} |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
~~strike~~ |
| Superscript Format |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^{sup} |
| Subscript Format |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
_{sub} |
| Images |
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif |
, [[image.jpg|alt text:pic]] |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
{{./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>Centered</center> |
not implemented |
| Text Indentation |
: indented |
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}
> blockquote |
: indented line |
indent with tabs |
| Bulleted Lists |
* first * second |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* List item * sub items * with indent |
| Numbered Lists |
1. first 1. second |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 2. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. List item a. with sub items b. ... |
| Definition Lists |
title: description |
term : definition |
; term : definition |
not implemented |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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not implemented |
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