ikiwiki vs. Zim vs. ProWiki

General Features ikiwiki Zim ProWiki
Version
2.67
0.56
2.0.045
Last Release Date
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Jaap Karssenberg
Helmut Leitner
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Python
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
Private users, small teams
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
System Requirements ikiwiki Zim ProWiki
Operating System
Any
Linux, Windows, OSX
Unix / Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
None
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Other Requirements
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
none
Datastorage ikiwiki Zim ProWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Other
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki Zim ProWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
File permissions
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
No
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support ikiwiki Zim ProWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ikiwiki Zim ProWiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
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
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features ikiwiki Zim ProWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
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
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
Email notification
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
No
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
No
No
Links ikiwiki Zim ProWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
Yes
Syntax Features ikiwiki Zim ProWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
None
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
No
Footnotes
No
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
None
Content Includes
Plugin
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
No
Usability ikiwiki Zim ProWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics ikiwiki Zim ProWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Output ikiwiki Zim ProWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Optional
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ikiwiki Zim ProWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
Extras ikiwiki Zim ProWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ikiwiki Zim ProWiki
Internal Link
[[internal]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
=== Heading ===
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
``monospace``
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
~~strike~~
[[strike]strikethrough text]
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
^{sup}
<sup>text</sup>
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
_{sub}
<sub>text</sub>
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
{{./image.png}}
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
Aligning Text
not implemented
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
Text Indentation
indent with tabs
: indented line
:: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
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. ...
# numbered list
## numbered list
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
not implemented
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
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Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
not implemented
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