| General Features | ProntoWiki | Git-Wiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.0.1
|
1.0
|
0.56
|
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
|
| Last Release Date |
2026-07-27 (today)
|
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
|
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
|
|
| Last Update here |
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
|
2022-04-17 (4 years ago)
|
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
|
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
|
| Author |
Clay Alberty
|
Jaap Karssenberg
|
Andreas Gohr
|
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
BSD
|
MIT
|
GPL
|
GPL 2
|
| Programming Language |
C#
|
Ruby
|
Python
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
RCS
|
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free
|
Free
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Private, Public
|
Private users, small teams
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
|
| System Requirements | ProntoWiki | Git-Wiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows
|
*nix
|
Linux, Windows, OSX
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
IIS 5+
|
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
|
None
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
|
Ruby
|
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
|
|
| Datastorage | ProntoWiki | Git-Wiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| Text Files |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Other |
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
|
Git
|
Text Files with index in SQLite
|
None
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | ProntoWiki | Git-Wiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
.NET Membership platform
|
Plugin system, backends can be added
|
File permissions
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | ProntoWiki | Git-Wiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
242 ⭐
|
N/A
|
4692 ⭐
|
| Common Features | ProntoWiki | Git-Wiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | ProntoWiki | Git-Wiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
4
Czech, German, English, French |
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 |
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Links | ProntoWiki | Git-Wiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | ProntoWiki | Git-Wiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Plugin
|
None
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
none
|
simple + complex
|
none
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
XML based, Javascript
|
None
|
Optional, PHP
|
|
| Content Includes |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Usability | ProntoWiki | Git-Wiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | ProntoWiki | Git-Wiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Output | ProntoWiki | Git-Wiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | ProntoWiki | Git-Wiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
|
| Extras | ProntoWiki | Git-Wiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | ProntoWiki | Git-Wiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| Internal Link |
[pagename] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
| External Link |
{title|url} |
[[http://example.org|The title]] |
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org ftp://somehost/share \\host\share\.. |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
| Headlines |
!, !!, !!! |
== Section === Subsection ==== Sub-subsection or == Section == === Subsection === ==== Sub-subsection ==== |
=== Heading === |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
**bold** |
**bold** |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
''italics'' |
//italic// |
//italic// |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
__under__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
__underlined__ |
| Monospace Format |
|
<tt>monospace</tt> |
``monospace`` |
''monospace'' |
| Strikethrough Format |
<<strike>> (using custom tags) |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
~~strike~~ |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
| Superscript Format |
<<super>> (using custom tags) |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^{sup} |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<<sub>> (using custom tags) |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
_{sub} |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page |
{{Image.png}} |
{{./image.png}} |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
| Aligning Text |
available through custom tags |
|
not implemented |
Plugin |
| Text Indentation |
multiple spaces -> |
|
indent with tabs |
N/A |
| Bulleted Lists |
+ ++ +++ ++++ |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* List item * sub items * with indent |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# ## ### #### |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. List item a. with sub items b. ... |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
|
not implemented |
Plugin |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
---- |
not implemented |
---- |
| remove ProntoWiki | remove Git-Wiki | remove Zim | remove DokuWiki |