PmWiki vs. Wikepage vs. Zim

General Features PmWiki Wikepage Zim
Version
2.5.8
2008.1
0.56
Last Release Date
2026-03-09 (25 days ago)
2008-10-14 (17 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-09 (25 days ago)
2008-10-24 (17 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Jose Carlos Medeiros
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Private users, small groups
Private users, small teams
System Requirements PmWiki Wikepage Zim
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Platform Independent
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Server Independent
None
Other Requirements
none
n/a
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage PmWiki Wikepage Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki Wikepage Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
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
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Unknown
No
nofollow
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
No
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support PmWiki Wikepage 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 PmWiki Wikepage Zim
Preview
Yes
No
No
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
No
Page History
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
None
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features PmWiki Wikepage Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
Optional
No
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
No
Categories
Yes
No
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
No
Links PmWiki Wikepage Zim
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Unknown
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
No
Syntax Features PmWiki Wikepage Zim
HTML Tags
Plugin
None
None
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
none
CREOLE support
Optional
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
No
No
Footnotes
Plugin
No
No
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
None
Content Includes
Yes
No
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability PmWiki Wikepage Zim
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Optional
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics PmWiki Wikepage Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Output PmWiki Wikepage Zim
Printer Friendly
Print View
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
No
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki Wikepage Zim
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
Extras PmWiki Wikepage Zim
Calendar
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki Wikepage Zim
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[Link_type]
[http://externallink.com]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://externallink.com/|click]
[http://externallink.com/|picture.gif]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Biggest
!! Smaller
!!! Smallest
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**Bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''Italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
__Underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
With a space in front of the text
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
n/a
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
n/a
^{sup}
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
n/a
_{sub}
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[image.gif]
[http://externalimage.com/image.gif]
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
n/a
not implemented
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
n/a
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Bullet1
* Bullet2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
n/a
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
: term : definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
----
---
not implemented
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