ProntoWiki vs. Wiki CSharp .NET vs. Git-Wiki vs. Zim vs. DokuWiki

General Features ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki
Version
1.0.1
0.4.2
1.0
0.56
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2026-07-27 (today)
2009-12-31 (16 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2010-04-07 (16 years ago)
2022-04-17 (4 years ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
Author
Clay Alberty
Pier-Luc Duchaine
Jaap Karssenberg
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL V3
MIT
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
C#
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
Ruby
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
RCS
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, small and big team
Private, Public
Private users, small teams
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki
Operating System
Windows
Windows
*nix
Linux, Windows, OSX
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
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 Wiki CSharp .NET Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki
Text Files
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Unknown
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Oracle
Unknown
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Unknown
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
Git
Text Files with index in SQLite
None
Security/Anti-Spam ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
No
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
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
No
Optional
nofollow
No
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
No
No
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Optional
Development/Support ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
242 ⭐
N/A
4692 ⭐
Common Features ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki
Unicode Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Comments
No
No
No
Plugin
Categories
Optional
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Links ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Syntax Features ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Plugin
None
Optional
Math formulas
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
none
simple
simple + complex
none
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Footnotes
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
XML based, Javascript
None
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Usability ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Statistics ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Output ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
No
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Git-Wiki Zim DokuWiki
Internal Link
[pagename]
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
{title|url}
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
[[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
!, !!, !!!
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
== 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**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
=Italic=
//italic//
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
__under__
_Underline_
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
[|Monospace formate|]
<tt>monospace</tt>
``monospace``
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
-Strike-
<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
[$Image file$]
{{Image.png}}
{{./image.png}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
available through custom tags
not implemented
Plugin
Text Indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
indent with tabs
N/A
Bulleted Lists
+
++
+++
++++
-list1
--list2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
#
##
###
####
#list1
##list2
# 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
----
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