Wiki CSharp .NET vs. Zim vs. DokuWiki

General Features Wiki CSharp .NET Zim DokuWiki
Version
0.4.2
0.56
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2009-12-31 (16 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-07 (16 years ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
Author
Pier-Luc Duchaine
Jaap Karssenberg
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL V3
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, small and big team
Private users, small teams
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements Wiki CSharp .NET Zim DokuWiki
Operating System
Windows
Linux, Windows, OSX
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
None
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage Wiki CSharp .NET Zim DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
Text Files with index in SQLite
None
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki CSharp .NET Zim DokuWiki
Page Permissions
No
No
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
File permissions
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Development/Support Wiki CSharp .NET Zim DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features Wiki CSharp .NET Zim DokuWiki
Preview
No
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
No
Yes
Page History
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki CSharp .NET Zim DokuWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
Email notification
Unknown
No
Optional
Comments
No
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Plugin
Links Wiki CSharp .NET Zim DokuWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
Plugin
Syntax Features Wiki CSharp .NET Zim DokuWiki
HTML Tags
All
None
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
none
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
No
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
No
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Unknown
No
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Plugin
Scripting
None
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
No
Yes
Usability Wiki CSharp .NET Zim DokuWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Yes
Statistics Wiki CSharp .NET Zim DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
No
Plugin
Output Wiki CSharp .NET Zim DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
No
PDF Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Wiki CSharp .NET Zim DokuWiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
No
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Extras Wiki CSharp .NET Zim DokuWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Wiki CSharp .NET Zim DokuWiki
Internal Link
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
=== Heading ===
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
*Bold*
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
=Italic=
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
_Underline_
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
[|Monospace formate|]
``monospace``
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
-Strike-
~~strike~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
^{sup}
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
_{sub}
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[$Image file$]
{{./image.png}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
not implemented
Plugin
Text Indentation
indent with tabs
N/A
Bulleted Lists
-list1
--list2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
#list1
##list2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
not implemented
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
___
not implemented
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