Instiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Zim

General Features Instiki Oddmuse Zim
Version
0.30.0
2.3.13
0.56
Last Release Date
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Alex Schroeder
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Ruby's
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Ruby on Rails
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
general, education
family people, hackers
Private users, small teams
System Requirements Instiki Oddmuse Zim
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Anything supporting CGI scripts
None
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Writable data directory
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage Instiki Oddmuse Zim
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Plugin
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
No
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam Instiki Oddmuse Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
No
No
No
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
File permissions
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
No
nofollow
Unknown
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support Instiki Oddmuse Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
506 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Instiki Oddmuse Zim
Preview
No
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Instiki Oddmuse Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
No
Plugin
No
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
No
Links Instiki Oddmuse Zim
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features Instiki Oddmuse Zim
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
None
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Optional
No
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
None
Perl
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Usability Instiki Oddmuse Zim
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics Instiki Oddmuse Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Output Instiki Oddmuse Zim
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
No
Optional
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files Instiki Oddmuse Zim
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Extras Instiki Oddmuse Zim
Calendar
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
No
No
Presentations
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
Blogs
No
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Instiki Oddmuse Zim
Internal Link
[[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
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
[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
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_, *italic*
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
`monospace`
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^{sup}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
_{sub}
Images
![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.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
not implemented
Text Indentation
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
term
: definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
***
Depending on plugins:
----
not implemented
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