ikiwiki vs. Instiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Wiki on a Stick vs. Wikidot vs. Zim

General Features ikiwiki Instiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick Wikidot Zim
Version
2.67
0.30.0
2.3.13
0.12.0
0.56
Last Release Date
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2010-06-21 (15 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2010-08-24 (15 years ago)
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Alex Schroeder
legolas558
Michal Frackowiak
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Ruby's
GPL
GPLv2
AGPLv3
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Ruby on Rails
Perl
JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
Files
Files
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
general, education
family people, hackers
Advanced End Users
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Private users, small teams
Hosting Features ikiwiki Instiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick Wikidot Zim
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
no limit
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
max uploaded file size limit
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
by Terms Of Service
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
System Requirements ikiwiki Instiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick Wikidot Zim
Operating System
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Anything supported by Perl
OS Independent (Browser Application)
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Anything supporting CGI scripts
None
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Writable data directory
JavaScript-capable browser
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage ikiwiki Instiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick Wikidot Zim
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
Unknown
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Unknown
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Other
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
No
Self-modifying XHTML file, can export into XHTML and WSIF
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki Instiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick Wikidot Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
None (use your web server instead)
Supports per-page AES encryption
File permissions
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Unknown
No
No
No
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
No
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
No
No
Yes
No
Development/Support ikiwiki Instiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick Wikidot Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
506 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ikiwiki Instiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick Wikidot Zim
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features ikiwiki Instiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick Wikidot Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
English, Italian
2
English, Polish
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
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Discussion Pages
No
Threaded
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Links ikiwiki Instiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick Wikidot Zim
CamelCase
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Syntax Features ikiwiki Instiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick Wikidot Zim
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Plugin
All
None
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Optional
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
None
Perl
JavaScript
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
None
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Usability ikiwiki Instiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick Wikidot Zim
Section Editing
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Statistics ikiwiki Instiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick Wikidot Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Output ikiwiki Instiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick Wikidot Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ikiwiki Instiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick Wikidot Zim
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
No
Extras ikiwiki Instiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick Wikidot Zim
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
No
No
Yes
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ikiwiki Instiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick Wikidot Zim
Internal Link
[[internal]]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
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
[[WoaS test page]]
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
[another site](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://stickwiki.sf.net/|WoaS Official Website]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= Header 1
== Header 2
=== Header 3
+++ headline level 3
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold text*
**bold text**
**bold**
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
_italic_, *italic*
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
/italics text/
//italic text//
//italic//
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
_underlined text_
__underlined text__
__underline__
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
`monospace`
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{{this text will not render wiki syntax}}}
{{monospaced text}}
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--strikethrough text--
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
^{sup}
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
,,subscript,,
_{sub}
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[[Image::woas.png]]
[[image src="..."]]
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
no example known
= Centered line
not implemented
Text Indentation
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
* element 1
* element 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
# element 1
# element 1
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
term
: definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
: item : description
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
***
Depending on plugins:
----
----
----
not implemented
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