| General Features | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Zim |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.45.3
|
1.0.1
|
0.56
|
| Last Release Date |
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
|
2026-06-20 (today)
|
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-06-03 (17 days ago)
|
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
|
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Clay Alberty
|
Jaap Karssenberg
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
BSD
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
C#
|
Python
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
Free
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Private users, small teams
|
|
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Zim |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Windows
|
Linux, Windows, OSX
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
IIS 5+
|
None
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
|
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
|
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Zim |
| Text Files |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
No
|
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
|
Text Files with index in SQLite
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Zim |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ACL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
.NET Membership platform
|
File permissions
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Zim |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Zim |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Zim |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
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 |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
No
|
No
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Links | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Zim |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Zim |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Some
|
None
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
none
|
none
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
None
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Zim |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Zim |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Output | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Zim |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Zim |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
No
|
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Zim |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Zim |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[pagename] |
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
{title|url} |
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org ftp://somehost/share \\host\share\.. |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
!, !!, !!! |
=== Heading === |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
''italics'' |
//italic// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
__under__ |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
|
``monospace`` |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<<strike>> (using custom tags) |
~~strike~~ |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<<super>> (using custom tags) |
^{sup} |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<<sub>> (using custom tags) |
_{sub} |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page |
{{./image.png}} |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
available through custom tags |
not implemented |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
multiple spaces -> |
indent with tabs |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
+ ++ +++ ++++ |
* List item * sub items * with indent |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# ## ### #### |
1. List item a. with sub items b. ... |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
|
not implemented |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
|
not implemented |
| remove MediaWiki | remove ProntoWiki | remove Zim |