Zim vs. ProWiki

General Features Zim ProWiki
Version
0.56
2.0.045
Last Release Date
2012-04-02 (13 years ago)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
Author
Jaap Karssenberg
Helmut Leitner
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Python
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private users, small teams
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
System Requirements Zim ProWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OSX
Unix / Linux
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
None
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Other Requirements
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
none
Datastorage Zim ProWiki
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
Security/Anti-Spam Zim ProWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
File permissions
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support Zim ProWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features Zim ProWiki
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
No
Special Features Zim ProWiki
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
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
Email notification
No
Yes
Comments
No
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
No
Links Zim ProWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Syntax Features Zim ProWiki
HTML Tags
None
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Tables
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
No
Custom styles
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Scripting
None
Content Includes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Usability Zim ProWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Statistics Zim ProWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Output Zim ProWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Zim ProWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Extras Zim ProWiki
Calendar
Yes
Yes
Image Galleries
No
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zim ProWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
External Link
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
Headlines
=== Heading ===
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
``monospace``
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
~~strike~~
[[strike]strikethrough text]
Superscript Format
^{sup}
<sup>text</sup>
Subscript Format
_{sub}
<sub>text</sub>
Images
{{./image.png}}
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
Aligning Text
not implemented
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
Text Indentation
indent with tabs
: indented line
:: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
Numbered Lists
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
# numbered list
## numbered list
Definition Lists
not implemented
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
not implemented
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