Zim vs. PodWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features Zim PodWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware ErfurtWiki
Version
0.56
0.9.1
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2024-04-01 (2 years ago)
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
Author
Jaap Karssenberg
Thomas Linden
Tiki Software Community Association
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
LGPL
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
Python
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
GPL / none
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private users, small teams
average to advanced users
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
small + medium sites, development teams
System Requirements Zim PodWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware ErfurtWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OSX
Unix
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
None
apache
Works on standard shared hosting
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
mod_rewrite optional
None
none
Datastorage Zim PodWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware ErfurtWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Plugin
RCS
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
Text Files with index in SQLite
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
MariaDB
no
Security/Anti-Spam Zim PodWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File permissions
builtin
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
No
No
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Patch
Development/Support Zim PodWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#49
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Zim PodWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware ErfurtWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Change Summary
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Zim PodWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
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
1
English
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Comments
No
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Links Zim PodWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Zim PodWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
None
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
None
Perl
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
optional
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Zim PodWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Optional
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Optional
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
No
Statistics Zim PodWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Optional
Analysis
No
No
Yes
No
Output Zim PodWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Optional
PDF Export
No
No
Optional
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files Zim PodWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Contents
No
Extras Zim PodWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware ErfurtWiki
Calendar
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Blogs
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zim PodWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
POD:
L<Sandbox>
L<Link Description|Sandbox>

Creole:
[[Sandbox]]
[[Sandbox|Link Description]]

BBcode:
[url]Sandbox[/url]
[url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
L<http://www.daemon.de>
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
=== Heading ===
=head1 The Weather
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
**bold**
B<bold>
__bold__
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
//italic//
I<italics>
''italic''
''ialic text''
Underline Format
__underline__
via html only
===underline===
optional or via css
Monospace Format
``monospace``
put a space in front of monospaced text
-+monospace+-
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
~~strike~~
via html only
--strike--
optional or via css
Superscript Format
^{sup}
via html only
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
_{sub}
via html only
{SUB()}text{SUB}
optional or via css
Images
{{./image.png}}
G<logo.png>
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
not implemented
via stylesheet only
::centered text::
optional or via css
Text Indentation
indent with tabs
via stylesheet only
leading spaces, if activated.
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
=over

=item* listitem

=back
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
=over

=item 1. listitem

=back
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Definition Lists
not implemented
via html only
;term:definition
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Horizontal Rule
not implemented
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