Git-Wiki vs. Zim vs. DokuWiki vs. PageWork

General Features Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki PageWork
Version
1.0
0.56
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
0.4.8
Last Release Date
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
2010-07-20 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2022-04-17 (4 years ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
Author
Jaap Karssenberg
Andreas Gohr
Pitt Murmann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
GPL
GPL 2
GPLv3
Programming Language
Ruby
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
RCS
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, Public
Private users, small teams
personal, small to medium companies
Medium-sized sites
System Requirements Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki PageWork
Operating System
*nix
Linux, Windows, OSX
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
None
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any
Other Requirements
Ruby
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki PageWork
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Patch
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Other
Git
Text Files with index in SQLite
None
Security/Anti-Spam Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki PageWork
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Plugin system, backends can be added
File permissions
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Proprietary
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
No
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Yes
Development/Support Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki PageWork
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
242 ⭐
N/A
4692 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki PageWork
Preview
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki PageWork
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
4
Czech, German, English, French
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
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
German, English
Email notification
No
No
Optional
No
Comments
No
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Links Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki PageWork
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki PageWork
HTML Tags
Plugin
None
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
none
simple
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
XML based, Javascript
None
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Usability Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki PageWork
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
No
Statistics Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki PageWork
Recent Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
No
Output Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki PageWork
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki PageWork
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki PageWork
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki PageWork
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
External Link
[[http://example.org|The title]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
Headlines
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
=== Heading ===
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
Italics Format
//italic//
//italic//
//italics//
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underlined__
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
``monospace``
''monospace''
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
~~strike~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^{sup}
<sup>superscript</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
_{sub}
<sub>subscript</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
{{Image.png}}
{{./image.png}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
Aligning Text
not implemented
Plugin
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
indent with tabs
N/A
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
Definition Lists
not implemented
Plugin
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
not implemented
----
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