Friki vs. PukiWiki vs. Zim

General Features Friki PukiWiki Zim
Version
2.1.1
1.5.1
0.56
Last Release Date
2004-05-14 (22 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Frank Carver
PukiWiki Development Team
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
ASL or LGPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users and small teams
One theme, one PukiWiki
Private users, small teams
System Requirements Friki PukiWiki Zim
Operating System
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
OS independent
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any that can run or call Java
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
None
Other Requirements
Java 1.3 or later
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage Friki PukiWiki Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam Friki PukiWiki Zim
Page Permissions
No
Yes
No
ACL
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
File permissions
Host Blocking
Patch
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Patch
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support Friki PukiWiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Friki PukiWiki Zim
Preview
No
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
No
No
Change Summary
No
No
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Friki PukiWiki Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Interface Languages
0
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
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
Comments
No
Plugin
No
Categories
Unknown
No
Plugin
Namespaces
Unknown
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
No
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
No
No
Links Friki PukiWiki Zim
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Patch
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Features Friki PukiWiki Zim
HTML Tags
None
Plugin
None
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
complex
none
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Optional
No
No
Textile Support
Optional
No
No
BBCode Support
Optional
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
No
Quoting
No
Optional
No
Internal Comments
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
None
Content Includes
No
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
No
Usability Friki PukiWiki Zim
Section Editing
No
Patch
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Statistics Friki PukiWiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Output Friki PukiWiki Zim
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Optional
No
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
No
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
No
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Friki PukiWiki Zim
File Attachments
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
No
Media Search
No
No
No
Extras Friki PukiWiki Zim
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Optional
No
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Optional
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Friki PukiWiki Zim
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
'''bold''
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
'''italic'''
//italic//
Underline Format
%%%underlined%%%
__underline__
Monospace Format
monospace
N/A
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
N/A
^{sup}
Subscript Format
N/A
_{sub}
Images
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
not implemented
Text Indentation
:        indented
N/A
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* first
* second
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
1. first
1. second
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
title:        description
:term|definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
--------------------
not implemented
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