ProntoWiki vs. Wiki CSharp .NET vs. Zim vs. Wikidot

General Features ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot
Version
1.0.1
0.4.2
0.56
Last Release Date
1.0.1
2009-12-31 (16 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2010-04-07 (16 years ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
Author
Clay Alberty
Pier-Luc Duchaine
Jaap Karssenberg
Michal Frackowiak
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL V3
GPL
AGPLv3
Programming Language
C#
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
Python
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
Development status
Mature
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, small and big team
Private users, small teams
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Hosting Features ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
no limit
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
max uploaded file size limit
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
by Terms Of Service
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
System Requirements ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot
Operating System
Windows
Windows
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS 5+
None
Other Requirements
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot
Text Files
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
MySQL
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
PostgreSQL
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
SQLite
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
RCS
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Other
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot
Page Permissions
Yes
No
No
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
.NET Membership platform
File permissions
Host Blocking
No
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
Development/Support ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot
Preview
Yes
No
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
No
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
No
Special Features ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot
Unicode Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
2
English, Polish
Email notification
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Comments
No
No
Threaded
Categories
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Links ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Unknown
No
No
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Syntax Features ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot
HTML Tags
Some
All
None
None
Math formulas
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Tables
none
simple
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Footnotes
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Unknown
No
No
Scripting
None
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Content Includes
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Usability ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot
Section Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Statistics ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot
Recent Changes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Unknown
No
No
Analysis
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Output ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
No
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Unknown
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Unknown
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
No
No
Auto-TOC
No
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Unknown
Yes
No
XML export
No
Unknown
No
No
PDF Export
No
Unknown
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot
File Attachments
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Unknown
No
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Extras ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProntoWiki Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot
Internal Link
[pagename]
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
External Link
{title|url}
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
Headlines
!, !!, !!!
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
=== Heading ===
+++ headline level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
*Bold*
**bold**
**bold text**
Italics Format
''italics''
=Italic=
//italic//
//italic text//
Underline Format
__under__
_Underline_
__underline__
__underlined text__
Monospace Format
[|Monospace formate|]
``monospace``
{{monospaced text}}
Strikethrough Format
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
-Strike-
~~strike~~
--strikethrough text--
Superscript Format
<<super>> (using custom tags)
^{sup}
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
_{sub}
,,subscript,,
Images
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
[$Image file$]
{{./image.png}}
[[image src="..."]]
Aligning Text
available through custom tags
not implemented
= Centered line
Text Indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
indent with tabs
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
Bulleted Lists
+
++
+++
++++
-list1
--list2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* element 1
* element 2
Numbered Lists
#
##
###
####
#list1
##list2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
# element 1
# element 1
Definition Lists
not implemented
: item : description
Horizontal Rule
___
not implemented
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