| General Features | GWiki | Oddmuse | PmWiki | Zim |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.4.0
|
2.3.13
|
2.5.4
|
0.56
|
| Last Release Date |
2018-06-15 (7 years ago)
|
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
|
2025-12-06 (10 days ago)
|
2012-04-02 (13 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2018-10-16 (7 years ago)
|
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
|
2025-12-06 (10 days ago)
|
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
|
| Author |
Roger Rene Kommer
|
Alex Schroeder
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
Jaap Karssenberg
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Apache License, Version 2.0
|
GPL
|
GPL2+
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
Java
|
Perl
|
PHP
|
Python
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files
|
Files
|
Files
|
Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free
|
free
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
|
family people, hackers
|
All
|
Private users, small teams
|
| System Requirements | GWiki | Oddmuse | PmWiki | Zim |
| Operating System |
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
|
Anything supported by Perl
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Linux, Windows, OSX
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
All Java Servlet Container, included
|
Anything supporting CGI scripts
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
|
None
|
| Other Requirements |
Java 1.8+
|
Writable data directory
|
none
|
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
|
| Datastorage | GWiki | Oddmuse | PmWiki | Zim |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
Google Datastore
|
No
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
Text Files with index in SQLite
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | GWiki | Oddmuse | PmWiki | Zim |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Internal and external with adapter
|
None (use your web server instead)
|
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
|
File permissions
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Development/Support | GWiki | Oddmuse | PmWiki | Zim |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
7 ⭐
|
88 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | GWiki | Oddmuse | PmWiki | Zim |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Age
|
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 | GWiki | Oddmuse | PmWiki | Zim |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
2
German, English |
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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 |
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 |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
No
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Links | GWiki | Oddmuse | PmWiki | Zim |
| CamelCase |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | GWiki | Oddmuse | PmWiki | Zim |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
None
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
none
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
|
Perl
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
None
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Usability | GWiki | Oddmuse | PmWiki | Zim |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | GWiki | Oddmuse | PmWiki | Zim |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Output | GWiki | Oddmuse | PmWiki | Zim |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | GWiki | Oddmuse | PmWiki | Zim |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
| Extras | GWiki | Oddmuse | PmWiki | Zim |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | GWiki | Oddmuse | PmWiki | Zim |
| Internal Link |
[path/Page] [My Title|path/Page] |
optional, default on: [[page name]] optional, default off: PageName [PageName] → [1] [[[page name]]] → [1] [PageName text] → text [[page name|text]] → text Depending on plugins: [text](page) → text |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage |
| External Link |
[http://example.com] |
http://example.com/ [http://example.com/] → [1] optional, default on: [http://example.com/ text] → text Depending on plugins: [text](http://example.com/) → text |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org ftp://somehost/share \\host\share\.. |
| Headlines |
h1. Heading 1 h2. Heading 2 |
Depending on plugins: ## two ### three == two == === three == section ======= subsection ---------- |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
=== Heading === |
| Bold Format |
*Bold Format* |
Depending on plugins: *bold* **bold* '''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
_Italic format_ |
Depending on plugins: *italic* /italic/ //italic// ''italic'' |
''italic'' |
//italic// |
| Underline Format |
+Unterlined+ |
Depending on plugins: _underline_ __underline__ |
{+underlined+} |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
{{Monospace}} |
Depending on plugins: `mono` ##mono## [code]mono[/code] <tt>mono</tt> <code>mono</code> |
@@monospace@@ |
``monospace`` |
| Strikethrough Format |
-StrikeThrough- |
via bbCode plugin: [s]strike through[/s] |
{-strikethrough-} |
~~strike~~ |
| Superscript Format |
^Superscript^ |
via bbCode plugin: [sup]superscript[/sup] |
'^superscript^' |
^{sup} |
| Subscript Format |
~Subscript~ |
via bbCode plugin: [sub]subscript[/sub] |
'_subscript_' |
_{sub} |
| Images |
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png! |
http://example.com/pic.jpg Depending on plugins: [[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants  |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
{{./image.png}} |
| Aligning Text |
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div} |
no example known |
%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 |
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div} |
Depending on plugins: > text [quote] text [/quote] : one :: two |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
indent with tabs |
| Bulleted Lists |
- Item 1 - Item 2 -- Sub Item |
* one ** two |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* List item * sub items * with indent |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 # Item 2 ## Sub Item |
Depending on plugins: 1. one 2. two # one ## two |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. List item a. with sub items b. ... |
| Definition Lists |
* Item 1 * Item 2 ** Sub Item |
Depending on plugins: ; term: definition |
: term : definition |
not implemented |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
Depending on plugins: ---- |
---- |
not implemented |
| remove GWiki | remove Oddmuse | remove PmWiki | remove Zim |