ProWiki vs. Zim vs. ikiwiki vs. mobiki

General Features ProWiki Zim ikiwiki mobiki
Version
2.0.045
0.56
2.67
2016-06-26
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2016-06-26 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2016-06-26 (10 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
Jaap Karssenberg
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Martin D�ring
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
MIT
Programming Language
Perl
Python
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
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
Text centric websites and mobile use
System Requirements ProWiki Zim ikiwiki mobiki
Operating System
Unix / Linux
Linux, Windows, OSX
Any
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
None
Any, or none
any
Other Requirements
none
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
PHP 5.4+
Datastorage ProWiki Zim ikiwiki mobiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki Zim ikiwiki mobiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
File permissions
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
No
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support ProWiki Zim ikiwiki mobiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProWiki Zim ikiwiki mobiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features ProWiki Zim ikiwiki mobiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
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
1
English
0
Email notification
Yes
No
Yes
No
Comments
No
No
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
No
No
Unknown
No
Links ProWiki Zim ikiwiki mobiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Features ProWiki Zim ikiwiki mobiki
HTML Tags
Some
None
Optional
None
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
No
No
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Internal Comments
No
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
None
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability ProWiki Zim ikiwiki mobiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
No
Statistics ProWiki Zim ikiwiki mobiki
Recent Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
No
Output ProWiki Zim ikiwiki mobiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki Zim ikiwiki mobiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Optional
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Optional
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
No
Extras ProWiki Zim ikiwiki mobiki
Calendar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Unknown
No
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
No
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki Zim ikiwiki mobiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
[[internal]]
[Internal Link]
External Link
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
[link text](http://example.org)
http://mobiki.datenbrei.de
[Text|http://mobiki.datenbrei.de]
Headlines
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
=== Heading ===
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
!Headline
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
n/a
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
``monospace``
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
n/a
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
~~strike~~
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
n/a
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
^{sup}
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
n/a
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
_{sub}
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
n/a
Images
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
{{./image.png}}
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
http://image.png
image:example.jpg
images:imagefolder
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
not implemented
___
aligned text
___
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
indent with tabs
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
- One
- Two
* One
* Two
Numbered Lists
# numbered list
## numbered list
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
0. One
0. Two
0. Three
Definition Lists
; term: definition
not implemented
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
n/a
Horizontal Rule
----
not implemented
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Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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