DokuWiki vs. Zwiki vs. LionWiki

General Features DokuWiki Zwiki LionWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.61
3.2.4
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2008-10-27 (15 years ago)
2010-09-19 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2008-10-30 (15 years ago)
2010-10-01 (13 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Adam Živnéř
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPLv2
GPL v2
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
advanced users, minimalists
System Requirements DokuWiki Zwiki LionWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
All PHP supported
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Zope
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
Other Requirements
Datastorage DokuWiki Zwiki LionWiki
Text Files
Yes
Plugin
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
Unknown
No
Other
None
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Zwiki LionWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Patch
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Zwiki LionWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Zwiki LionWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Zwiki LionWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
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
0
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
No
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Unknown
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
No
Links DokuWiki Zwiki LionWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Unknown
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Zwiki LionWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Patch
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Optional
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
DTML
JavaScript (plugin)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability DokuWiki Zwiki LionWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki Zwiki LionWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Optional
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Output DokuWiki Zwiki LionWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki Zwiki LionWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras DokuWiki Zwiki LionWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
No
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Zwiki LionWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a 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..
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold''
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
__underlined__
'__underline__'
Monospace Format
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
'--strikethrough--'
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[path_to_img.jpg]
Aligning Text
Plugin
Text Indentation
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
Definition Lists
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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