| General Features | GWiki | Zim | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.4.0
|
0.56
|
1.32.2
|
| Last Release Date |
2018-06-15 (7 years ago)
|
2012-04-02 (13 years ago)
|
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2018-10-16 (7 years ago)
|
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
|
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
|
| Author |
Roger Rene Kommer
|
Jaap Karssenberg
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Apache License, Version 2.0
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
Java
|
Python
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files
|
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
|
Private users, small teams
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
| System Requirements | GWiki | Zim | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
|
Linux, Windows, OSX
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
All Java Servlet Container, included
|
None
|
Any with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
Java 1.8+
|
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
|
none
|
| Datastorage | GWiki | Zim | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Other |
Google Datastore
|
Text Files with index in SQLite
|
No
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | GWiki | Zim | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Internal and external with adapter
|
File permissions
|
Yes
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | GWiki | Zim | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
7 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | GWiki | Zim | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | GWiki | Zim | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
2
German, English |
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 |
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 |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
No
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Links | GWiki | Zim | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | GWiki | Zim | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
None
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
none
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
|
None
|
Optional
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | GWiki | Zim | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | GWiki | Zim | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Output | GWiki | Zim | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | GWiki | Zim | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | GWiki | Zim | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | GWiki | Zim | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
[path/Page] [My Title|path/Page] |
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.com] |
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org ftp://somehost/share \\host\share\.. |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
h1. Heading 1 h2. Heading 2 |
=== Heading === |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
*Bold Format* |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
_Italic format_ |
//italic// |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
+Unterlined+ |
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
{{Monospace}} |
``monospace`` |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
-StrikeThrough- |
~~strike~~ |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
^Superscript^ |
^{sup} |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
~Subscript~ |
_{sub} |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png! |
{{./image.png}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div} |
not implemented |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div} |
indent with tabs |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
- Item 1 - Item 2 -- Sub Item |
* List item * sub items * with indent |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 # Item 2 ## Sub Item |
1. List item a. with sub items b. ... |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
* Item 1 * Item 2 ** Sub Item |
not implemented |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
not implemented |
---- |
| remove GWiki | remove Zim | remove MediaWiki |