Zim vs. DokuWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. Hatta

General Features Zim DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Version
0.56
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.67
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
Last Update here
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
Author
Jaap Karssenberg
Andreas Gohr
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
GPL v2
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private users, small teams
personal, small to medium companies
Anyone
System Requirements Zim DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OSX
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
None
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Mercurial
Datastorage Zim DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Other
Text Files with index in SQLite
None
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam Zim DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
File permissions
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
n/a
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support Zim DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4706 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Zim DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Zim DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Links Zim DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Syntax Features Zim DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Optional
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Tables
none
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
No
Yes
No
No
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Custom styles
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
None
Optional, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
JavaScript
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability Zim DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Statistics Zim DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
Output Zim DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Zim DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Optional
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras Zim DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Unknown
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zim DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Internal Link
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[internal]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
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)
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
Headlines
=== Heading ===
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
n/a
Monospace Format
``monospace``
''monospace''
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
~~strike~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
n/a
Superscript Format
^{sup}
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
n/a
Subscript Format
_{sub}
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
n/a
Images
{{./image.png}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
Aligning Text
not implemented
Plugin
n/a
Text Indentation
indent with tabs
N/A
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
* list
** sublist
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
n/a
Definition Lists
not implemented
Plugin
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
n/a
Horizontal Rule
not implemented
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Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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