ProWiki vs. Wicked vs. Zim vs. Zwiki

General Features ProWiki Wicked Zim Zwiki
Version
2.0.045
2.0.8
0.56
0.61
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
The Horde Project
Jaap Karssenberg
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Python
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Private users, small teams
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements ProWiki Wicked Zim Zwiki
Operating System
Unix / Linux
Any
Linux, Windows, OSX
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Any
None
Zope
Other Requirements
none
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage ProWiki Wicked Zim Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Other
None
Text Files with index in SQLite
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki Wicked Zim Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
25 different backends
File permissions
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
No
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Patch
Development/Support ProWiki Wicked Zim Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
1 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProWiki Wicked Zim Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProWiki Wicked Zim Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
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
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
No
No
No
Flat
Categories
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
No
No
No
Unknown
Links ProWiki Wicked Zim Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Features ProWiki Wicked Zim Zwiki
HTML Tags
Some
None
None
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Yes
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
No
No
Footnotes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
No
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Optional
Scripting
No
None
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
No
Plugin
Usability ProWiki Wicked Zim Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Patch
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Yes
Statistics ProWiki Wicked Zim Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
No
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
No
No
Output ProWiki Wicked Zim Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki Wicked Zim Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
No
Filenames only
Extras ProWiki Wicked Zim Zwiki
Calendar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki Wicked Zim Zwiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
@@+++ underline @@
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
@@--- strikethrough @@
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
^{sup}
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
_{sub}
Images
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
not implemented
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
# numbered list
## numbered list
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
; term: definition
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
----
----
not implemented
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