Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. Zim vs. Zwiki

General Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zim Zwiki
Version
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
0.56
0.61
Last Release Date
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-01 (2 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Tiki Software Community Association
Jaap Karssenberg
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Python
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Private users, small teams
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zim Zwiki
Operating System
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Linux, Windows, OSX
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Works on standard shared hosting
None
Zope
Other Requirements
None
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zim Zwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Plugin
Unknown
Other
MariaDB
Text Files with index in SQLite
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zim Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
File permissions
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Patch
Development/Support Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zim Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zim Zwiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zim Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
No
Yes
Comments
Threaded
No
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
No
Unknown
Links Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zim Zwiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Unknown
Syntax Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zim Zwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
None
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
No
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Optional
Scripting
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
None
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zim Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Yes
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zim Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Output Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zim Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Optional
No
Patch
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zim Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zim Zwiki
Calendar
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Unknown
Presentations
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Yes
No
Unknown
Chat
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zim Zwiki
Internal Link
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
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
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
===underline===
__underline__
Monospace Format
-+monospace+-
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
--strike--
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^{sup}
Subscript Format
{SUB()}text{SUB}
_{sub}
Images
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
::centered text::
not implemented
Text Indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
;term:definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
---
not implemented
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