Wiki CSharp .NET vs. Zim vs. Wikidot vs. DokuWiki

General Features Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot 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)
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
Author
Pier-Luc Duchaine
Jaap Karssenberg
Michal Frackowiak
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL V3
GPL
AGPLv3
GPL 2
Programming Language
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
0
Development status
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, small and big team
Private users, small teams
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
personal, small to medium companies
Hosting Features Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot DokuWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
no limit
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
max uploaded file size limit
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
by Terms Of Service
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
System Requirements Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot DokuWiki
Operating System
Windows
Linux, Windows, OSX
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
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 Wikidot DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Unknown
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Unknown
No
SQLite
No
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Other
Text Files with index in SQLite
None
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot DokuWiki
Page Permissions
No
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File permissions
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Optional
Development/Support Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
4693 ⭐
Common Features Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot DokuWiki
Preview
No
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Plugin
Yes
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
No
Yes
Special Features Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot DokuWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
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
2
English, Polish
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
Yes
Optional
Comments
No
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Links Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot DokuWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot DokuWiki
HTML Tags
All
None
None
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
none
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
None
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Usability Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot DokuWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Output Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
No
No
PDF Export
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot DokuWiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Extras Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot DokuWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Wiki CSharp .NET Zim Wikidot DokuWiki
Internal Link
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
[[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://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
=== Heading ===
+++ headline level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
*Bold*
**bold**
**bold text**
**bold**
Italics Format
=Italic=
//italic//
//italic text//
//italics//
Underline Format
_Underline_
__underline__
__underlined text__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
[|Monospace formate|]
``monospace``
{{monospaced text}}
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
-Strike-
~~strike~~
--strikethrough text--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
^{sup}
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
_{sub}
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[$Image file$]
{{./image.png}}
[[image src="..."]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
not implemented
= Centered line
Plugin
Text Indentation
indent with tabs
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
N/A
Bulleted Lists
-list1
--list2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* element 1
* element 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
#list1
##list2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
# element 1
# element 1
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
not implemented
: item : description
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
___
not implemented
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