ikiwiki vs. Wikepage vs. WikkaWiki vs. Zim

General Features ikiwiki Wikepage WikkaWiki Zim
Version
2.67
2008.1
1.4.2
0.56
Last Release Date
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2008-10-14 (17 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2008-10-24 (17 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Jose Carlos Medeiros
Wikka Development Team
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
Private users, small groups
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Private users, small teams
System Requirements ikiwiki Wikepage WikkaWiki Zim
Operating System
Any
Platform Independent
any (platform-independent)
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
Server Independent
any server with PHP/MySQL support
None
Other Requirements
n/a
mod_rewrite (optional)
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage ikiwiki Wikepage WikkaWiki Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Other
No
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki Wikepage WikkaWiki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Active Directory (patch)
File permissions
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Unknown
No
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support ikiwiki Wikepage WikkaWiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
42 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ikiwiki Wikepage WikkaWiki Zim
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
No
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ikiwiki Wikepage WikkaWiki Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
0
0
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
Patch
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Threaded
No
Categories
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Links ikiwiki Wikepage WikkaWiki Zim
CamelCase
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
No
Syntax Features ikiwiki Wikepage WikkaWiki Zim
HTML Tags
Optional
None
Some
None
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
No
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
No
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
None
Content Includes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Usability ikiwiki Wikepage WikkaWiki Zim
Section Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
No
Patch
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Patch
No
Statistics ikiwiki Wikepage WikkaWiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Patch
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Patch
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
No
Output ikiwiki Wikepage WikkaWiki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Patch
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files ikiwiki Wikepage WikkaWiki Zim
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Optional
No
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
No
Extras ikiwiki Wikepage WikkaWiki Zim
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
No
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Yes
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ikiwiki Wikepage WikkaWiki Zim
Internal Link
[[internal]]
[Link_type]
[http://externallink.com]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
[http://externallink.com/|click]
[http://externallink.com/|picture.gif]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
! Biggest
!! Smaller
!!! Smallest
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
**Bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''Italic''
//italic//
//italic//
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__Underline__
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
With a space in front of the text
##monospaced##
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
n/a
++Strike through text++
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
n/a
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
^{sup}
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
n/a
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
_{sub}
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[image.gif]
[http://externalimage.com/image.gif]
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
n/a
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
not implemented
Text Indentation
n/a
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Bullet1
* Bullet2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 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
n/a
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
---
----
not implemented
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