| General Features | LynxWiki | Wikidot | WikkaWiki | Zim |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.3.0.0
|
1.4.2
|
0.56
|
|
| Last Release Date |
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
|
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
|
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
|
|
| Last Update here |
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
|
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
|
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
|
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
|
| Author |
J.W. Davidson
|
Michal Frackowiak
|
Wikka Development Team
|
Jaap Karssenberg
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Apache License 2.0
|
AGPLv3
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
C#
|
PHP
|
Python
|
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files
|
Database
|
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$0
|
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
small organization to enterprise
|
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
|
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
|
Private users, small teams
|
| Hosting Features | LynxWiki | Wikidot | WikkaWiki | Zim |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
no limit
|
N/A
|
N/A
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| Other Limits |
N/A
|
max uploaded file size limit
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
by Terms Of Service
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | LynxWiki | Wikidot | WikkaWiki | Zim |
| Operating System |
Windows
|
any (platform-independent)
|
Linux, Windows, OSX
|
|
| Root Access |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
IIS7 or IIS8
|
any server with PHP/MySQL support
|
None
|
|
| Other Requirements |
IronPython
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
|
|
| Datastorage | LynxWiki | Wikidot | WikkaWiki | Zim |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
|
No
|
Text Files with index in SQLite
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | LynxWiki | Wikidot | WikkaWiki | Zim |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
MS Membership and Roles
|
Active Directory (patch)
|
File permissions
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | LynxWiki | Wikidot | WikkaWiki | Zim |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
42 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | LynxWiki | Wikidot | WikkaWiki | Zim |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | LynxWiki | Wikidot | WikkaWiki | Zim |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
2
English, Polish |
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 |
No
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
No
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
None
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Links | LynxWiki | Wikidot | WikkaWiki | Zim |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | LynxWiki | Wikidot | WikkaWiki | Zim |
| HTML Tags |
None
|
None
|
Some
|
None
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
none
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom styles |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
IronPython
|
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
|
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
|
None
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Usability | LynxWiki | Wikidot | WikkaWiki | Zim |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Statistics | LynxWiki | Wikidot | WikkaWiki | Zim |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Output | LynxWiki | Wikidot | WikkaWiki | Zim |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
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 | LynxWiki | Wikidot | WikkaWiki | Zim |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Extras | LynxWiki | Wikidot | WikkaWiki | Zim |
| Calendar |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | LynxWiki | Wikidot | WikkaWiki | Zim |
| Internal Link |
CamelCase "display text":DisplayText |
[[[page-name]]] or [[[page-name|anchor]]] |
CamelCase [[forced]] [[forced|This is a link]] [[forced |日本語]] |
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage |
| External Link |
http://www.wikimatrix.org "Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org "this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com |
http://www.wikimatrix.org or [http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix] |
http://wikkawiki.org [[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]] [[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]] |
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org ftp://somehost/share \\host\share\.. |
| Headlines |
!!Header 2 !!!Header 3 !!!!!!Header 6 |
+++ headline level 3 |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
=== Heading === |
| Bold Format |
*bold* '''bold''' |
**bold text** |
**bold** |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
_italics_ |
//italic text// |
//italic// |
//italic// |
| Underline Format |
+underlined+ |
__underlined text__ |
__underlined__ |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
[indent single space] @mono space on single line@ @@ start on multiline with end @@ |
{{monospaced text}} |
##monospaced## |
``monospace`` |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
--strikethrough text-- |
++Strike through text++ |
~~strike~~ |
| Superscript Format |
superscript^234^ |
^^superscript^^ |
""<sup>Superscript</sup>"" |
^{sup} |
| Subscript Format |
water: H~2~O |
,,subscript,, |
""<sub>Subscript</sub>"" |
_{sub} |
| Images |
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg] http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg |
[[image src="..."]] |
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}} |
{{./image.png}} |
| Aligning Text |
N/A |
= Centered line |
@@Center text@@ <<left floated<< >>right floated>> |
not implemented |
| Text Indentation |
N/A |
> First level of indentation >> Second level of indentation. |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) indented ~indented |
indent with tabs |
| Bulleted Lists |
* first bullet (8 spaces) * first sub item bullet * second item |
* element 1 * element 2 |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) ~- Item 1 ~~- Item 1.1 ~- Item 2 |
* List item * sub items * with indent |
| Numbered Lists |
1. first numbered item 1. second item |
# element 1 # element 1 |
(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 |
N/A |
: item : description |
""<dl> <dt>Coffee</dt> <dd>Black hot drink</dd> <dt>Milk</dt> <dd>White cold drink</dd> </dl>"" |
not implemented |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
---- |
---- |
not implemented |
| remove LynxWiki | remove Wikidot | remove WikkaWiki | remove Zim |