Wiki CSharp .NET vs. DokuWiki vs. Zim vs. Zwiki

General Features Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zim Zwiki
Version
0.4.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.56
0.61
Last Release Date
2009-12-31 (16 years ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2012-04-02 (13 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-07 (15 years ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Pier-Luc Duchaine
Andreas Gohr
Jaap Karssenberg
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL V3
GPL 2
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
PHP
Python
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, small and big team
personal, small to medium companies
Private users, small teams
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zim Zwiki
Operating System
Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OSX
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
None
Zope
Other Requirements
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zim Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
No
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Other
None
Text Files with index in SQLite
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zim Zwiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
File permissions
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Patch
Development/Support Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zim Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4580 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zim Zwiki
Preview
No
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zim Zwiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
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
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
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
Comments
Plugin
No
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Links Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zim Zwiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Syntax Features Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zim Zwiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
None
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
No
Optional
Scripting
Optional, PHP
None
DTML
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zim Zwiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zim Zwiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Plugin
No
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Output Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zim Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zim Zwiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zim Zwiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zim Zwiki
Internal Link
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
[[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
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
*Bold*
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
=Italic=
//italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
_Underline_
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
[|Monospace formate|]
''monospace''
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
-Strike-
<del>strikethrough</del>
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^{sup}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
_{sub}
Images
[$Image file$]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
not implemented
Text Indentation
N/A
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
-list1
--list2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
#list1
##list2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
Plugin
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
___
----
not implemented
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