| General Features | Zim | MediaWiki | Zwiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.56
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1.32.2
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0.61
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| Last Release Date |
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
|
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
|
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
|
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
|
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
|
| Author |
Jaap Karssenberg
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
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| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| License |
GPL
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GPL
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GPLv2
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| Programming Language |
Python
|
PHP
|
Python
|
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
Database
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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
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
|
| System Requirements | Zim | MediaWiki | Zwiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OSX
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
any
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
None
|
Any with PHP support
|
Zope
|
| Other Requirements |
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
|
none
|
|
| Datastorage | Zim | MediaWiki | Zwiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| RCS |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Other |
Text Files with index in SQLite
|
No
|
ZODB (zope object database)
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Zim | MediaWiki | Zwiki |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
File permissions
|
Yes
|
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Development/Support | Zim | MediaWiki | Zwiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel |
#zwiki on freenode
|
||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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N/A
|
N/A
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| Common Features | Zim | MediaWiki | Zwiki |
| 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
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Zim | MediaWiki | Zwiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
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 |
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
0
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| Email notification |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
No
|
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Links | Zim | MediaWiki | Zwiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Page Redirects |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | Zim | MediaWiki | Zwiki |
| HTML Tags |
None
|
Some
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
none
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Scripting |
None
|
Optional
|
DTML
|
| Content Includes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | Zim | MediaWiki | Zwiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Zim | MediaWiki | Zwiki |
| Recent Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Output | Zim | MediaWiki | Zwiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Auto-TOC |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Zim | MediaWiki | Zwiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | Zim | MediaWiki | Zwiki |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Zim | MediaWiki | Zwiki |
| Internal Link |
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
WikiName [freeform name] [[double-bracketed]] |
| External Link |
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org ftp://somehost/share \\host\share\.. |
[http://example.org The title] |
Bare urls plus markup-specific link syntax. This and all following syntax examples depend on which markup mode is used for a page, including: restructured text, structured text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, html, plaintext.. |
| Headlines |
=== Heading === |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
|
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
|
| Italics Format |
//italic// |
''italic'' |
|
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
|
| Monospace Format |
``monospace`` |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
|
| Strikethrough Format |
~~strike~~ |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
|
| Superscript Format |
^{sup} |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
| Subscript Format |
_{sub} |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
| Images |
{{./image.png}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
|
| Aligning Text |
not implemented |
<center>Centered</center> |
|
| Text Indentation |
indent with tabs |
: indented line |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* List item * sub items * with indent |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
|
| Numbered Lists |
1. List item a. with sub items b. ... |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
|
| Definition Lists |
not implemented |
; term : definition |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
not implemented |
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