Zim vs. Anwiki vs. ProWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features Zim Anwiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Version
0.56
0.2.5
2.0.045
2.67
Last Release Date
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
2013-06-25 (13 years ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
Jaap Karssenberg
Antoine Walter
Helmut Leitner
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 3
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private users, small teams
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Anyone
System Requirements Zim Anwiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OSX
Linux, Windows, probably others
Unix / Linux
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
None
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Any, or none
Other Requirements
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
none
Datastorage Zim Anwiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Other
Text Files with index in SQLite
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
Security/Anti-Spam Zim Anwiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File permissions
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support Zim Anwiki ProWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Zim Anwiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age or Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Zim Anwiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
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
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
1
English
Email notification
No
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
No
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Links Zim Anwiki ProWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Zim Anwiki ProWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
none
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
No
Plugin
Footnotes
No
No
Yes
No
Quoting
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Scripting
None
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability Zim Anwiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
No
No
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
No
Statistics Zim Anwiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
No
Output Zim Anwiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Zim Anwiki ProWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
No
Filenames only
Extras Zim Anwiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zim Anwiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
[[internal]]
External Link
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
=== Heading ===
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
**bold**
<b>bold</b>
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
//italic//
<i>italic</i>
''italic''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
``monospace``
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

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