Friki vs. PmWiki vs. Wiki on a Stick vs. Zim

General Features Friki PmWiki Wiki on a Stick Zim
Version
2.1.1
2.6.0
0.12.0
0.56
Last Release Date
2004-05-14 (22 years ago)
2026-05-16 (2 days ago)
2010-06-21 (15 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
2026-05-16 (2 days ago)
2010-08-24 (15 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Frank Carver
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
legolas558
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
ASL or LGPL
GPL2+
GPLv2
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users and small teams
All
Advanced End Users
Private users, small teams
System Requirements Friki PmWiki Wiki on a Stick Zim
Operating System
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent (Browser Application)
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any that can run or call Java
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
None
Other Requirements
Java 1.3 or later
none
JavaScript-capable browser
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage Friki PmWiki Wiki on a Stick Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Self-modifying XHTML file, can export into XHTML and WSIF
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam Friki PmWiki Wiki on a Stick Zim
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
No
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Supports per-page AES encryption
File permissions
Host Blocking
Patch
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support Friki PmWiki Wiki on a Stick Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Friki PmWiki Wiki on a Stick Zim
Preview
No
Yes
No
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Friki PmWiki Wiki on a Stick Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
Interface Languages
0
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
English, Italian
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
Optional
No
No
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
No
No
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Links Friki PmWiki Wiki on a Stick Zim
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Syntax Features Friki PmWiki Wiki on a Stick Zim
HTML Tags
None
Plugin
All
None
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Optional
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Optional
No
No
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Quoting
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
None
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
No
No
Usability Friki PmWiki Wiki on a Stick Zim
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Statistics Friki PmWiki Wiki on a Stick Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Optional
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Output Friki PmWiki Wiki on a Stick Zim
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Optional
No
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Friki PmWiki Wiki on a Stick Zim
File Attachments
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras Friki PmWiki Wiki on a Stick Zim
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
No
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Friki PmWiki Wiki on a Stick Zim
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[WoaS test page]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[http://stickwiki.sf.net/|WoaS Official Website]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Header 1
== Header 2
=== Header 3
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
'''bold''
'''bold'''
*bold text*
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
/italics text/
//italic//
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
_underlined text_
__underline__
Monospace Format
monospace
@@monospace@@
{{{this text will not render wiki syntax}}}
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
^{sup}
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
_{sub}
Images
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[[Image::woas.png]]
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
not implemented
Text Indentation
:        indented
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* first
* second
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
1. first
1. second
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
title:        description
: term : definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
----
----
not implemented
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