KeheiWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Zim

General Features KeheiWiki PmWiki Zim
Version
Pleiades-M45
2.5.4
0.56
Last Release Date
2005-03-22 (20 years ago)
2025-12-06 (11 days ago)
2012-04-02 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-23 (15 years ago)
2025-12-06 (11 days ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
corporate and special interest groups
All
Private users, small teams
System Requirements KeheiWiki PmWiki Zim
Operating System
Unix/Linux
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
None
Other Requirements
perl 4 or newer
none
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage KeheiWiki PmWiki Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
No
Oracle
Plugin
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Other
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam KeheiWiki PmWiki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Apache
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
File permissions
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Optional
No
Development/Support KeheiWiki PmWiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features KeheiWiki PmWiki Zim
Preview
Optional
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features KeheiWiki PmWiki Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, 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
Yes
Optional
No
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Links KeheiWiki PmWiki Zim
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features KeheiWiki PmWiki Zim
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
None
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Unknown
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Optional
No
No
BBCode Support
Optional
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
No
Footnotes
No
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability KeheiWiki PmWiki Zim
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics KeheiWiki PmWiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output KeheiWiki PmWiki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Optional
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files KeheiWiki PmWiki Zim
File Attachments
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Plugin
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Extras KeheiWiki PmWiki Zim
Calendar
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples KeheiWiki PmWiki Zim
Internal Link
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
@@monospace@@
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{-strikethrough-}
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'^superscript^'
^{sup}
Subscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'_subscript_'
_{sub}
Images
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
not implemented
Text Indentation
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
: term : definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
----
not implemented
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