ikiwiki vs. Zim vs. Hatta vs. Aneuch vs. Oddmuse

General Features ikiwiki Zim Hatta Aneuch Oddmuse
Version
2.67
0.56
1.6.6
0.50
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
2016-02-17 (10 years ago)
2018-09-04 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
2016-06-28 (10 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Jaap Karssenberg
Radomir Dopieralski
Aaron Graves
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL v2
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Python
Python
PERL
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Free
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
Private users, small teams
Any
family people, hackers
System Requirements ikiwiki Zim Hatta Aneuch Oddmuse
Operating System
Any
Linux, Windows, OSX
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Any
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
None
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Any (only tested on Apache)
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Mercurial
Writable data directory
Datastorage ikiwiki Zim Hatta Aneuch Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Other
Text Files with index in SQLite
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki Zim Hatta Aneuch Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
No
No
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
File permissions
n/a
Simple
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
nofollow
No
No
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
No
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
No
Development/Support ikiwiki Zim Hatta Aneuch Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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89 ⭐
Common Features ikiwiki Zim Hatta Aneuch Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ikiwiki Zim Hatta Aneuch Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Interface Languages
1
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
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
No
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
No
No
No
Plugin
Links ikiwiki Zim Hatta Aneuch Oddmuse
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
No
No
Yes
Syntax Features ikiwiki Zim Hatta Aneuch Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Optional
None
None
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
none
simple
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Footnotes
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
None
JavaScript
None
Perl
Content Includes
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Usability ikiwiki Zim Hatta Aneuch Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Statistics ikiwiki Zim Hatta Aneuch Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
No
No
No
Output ikiwiki Zim Hatta Aneuch Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files ikiwiki Zim Hatta Aneuch Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Optional
No
No
No
No
Embedded Video
Optional
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras ikiwiki Zim Hatta Aneuch Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Yes
No
Blogs
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Yes
No
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples ikiwiki Zim Hatta Aneuch Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[internal]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
[[Page]]
[[Page|page description]]
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
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
[[http://www.google.com/]]
[[http://www.google.com/|Google]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
=== Heading ===
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
= H1 =
= H1
=== H3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italic//
//italic//
//italic//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__underline__
n/a
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
``monospace``
{{{verbatim}}}
`monospace`
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
~~strike~~
n/a
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
^{sup}
n/a
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
_{sub}
n/a
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
{{./image.png}}
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
{{image.jpg}}
{{image.jpg|alt text}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
not implemented
n/a
no example known
Text Indentation
indent with tabs
n/a
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* list
** sublist
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
n/a
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
not implemented
n/a
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
not implemented
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Depending on plugins:
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