| General Features | Zim | DokuWiki | ikiwiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.56
|
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
|
2.67
|
| Last Release Date |
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
|
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
|
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
|
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
|
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
|
| Author |
Jaap Karssenberg
|
Andreas Gohr
|
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
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GPL 2
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GPL
|
| Programming Language |
Python
|
PHP
|
Perl
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| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
Files, RCS
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Private users, small teams
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
Anyone
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| System Requirements | Zim | DokuWiki | ikiwiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OSX
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Any
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| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
None
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Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Any, or none
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| Other Requirements |
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
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| Datastorage | Zim | DokuWiki | ikiwiki |
| 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 |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Text Files with index in SQLite
|
None
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Zim | DokuWiki | ikiwiki |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
File permissions
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
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| Host Blocking |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Zim | DokuWiki | ikiwiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
No
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
4706 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | Zim | DokuWiki | ikiwiki |
| Preview |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Zim | DokuWiki | ikiwiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
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 |
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 |
1
English |
| Email notification |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
No
|
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Links | Zim | DokuWiki | ikiwiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | Zim | DokuWiki | ikiwiki |
| HTML Tags |
None
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
none
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
None
|
Optional, PHP
|
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
|
| Content Includes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | Zim | DokuWiki | ikiwiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | Zim | DokuWiki | ikiwiki |
| Recent Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Output | Zim | DokuWiki | ikiwiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Zim | DokuWiki | ikiwiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Embedded Video |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Filenames only
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | Zim | DokuWiki | ikiwiki |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Zim | DokuWiki | ikiwiki |
| Internal Link |
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[internal]] |
| External Link |
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org ftp://somehost/share \\host\share\.. |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[link text](http://example.org) |
| Headlines |
=== Heading === |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
Two syntaxes: # heading 1 ## heading 2 ### heading 3 heading 1 ========= heading 2 --------- |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
**bold** |
**bold** __bold__ |
| Italics Format |
//italic// |
//italics// |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
__underlined__ |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
``monospace`` |
''monospace'' |
`inline monospace` indented block of monospaced text tab-indented block |
| Strikethrough Format |
~~strike~~ |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
| Superscript Format |
^{sup} |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
_{sub} |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
| Images |
{{./image.png}} |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
  |
| Aligning Text |
not implemented |
Plugin |
|
| Text Indentation |
indent with tabs |
N/A |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* List item * sub items * with indent |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* item 1 * item 2 * item 2.1 * item 2.2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. List item a. with sub items b. ... |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
1. item 1 2. item 2 1. item 1.1 42. the value doesn't matter 1. any value works |
| Definition Lists |
not implemented |
Plugin |
via HTML: <dl> <dt>term</dt> <dd>definition</dd> </dl> |
| Horizontal Rule |
not implemented |
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