Zim vs. Foswiki

General Features Zim Foswiki
Version
0.56
2.1.11
Last Release Date
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2026-03-15 (7 months ago)
Last Update here
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
2026-03-15 (7 months ago)
Author
Jaap Karssenberg
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Python
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private users, small teams
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements Zim Foswiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OSX
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
None
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Zim Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
Other
Text Files with index in SQLite
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam Zim Foswiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
File permissions
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Development/Support Zim Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features Zim Foswiki
Preview
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features Zim Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Yes
Links Zim Foswiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Syntax Features Zim Foswiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Scripting
None
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Usability Zim Foswiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Statistics Zim Foswiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Output Zim Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Zim Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Extras Zim Foswiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Zim Foswiki
Internal Link 
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link 
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
 
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines 
=== Heading ===
 
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format 
**bold**
 
*bold*
Italics Format 
//italic//
 
_italic_
Underline Format 
__underline__
 
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format 
``monospace``
 
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format 
~~strike~~
 
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format 
^{sup}
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format 
_{sub}
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images 
{{./image.png}}
 
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text 
not implemented
 
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation 
indent with tabs
 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists 
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
 
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists 
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
 
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists 
not implemented
 
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule 
not implemented
 
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