Wiki CSharp .NET vs. DokuWiki vs. Zwiki vs. GWiki vs. Zim vs. PhpWiki

General Features Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zwiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki
Version
0.4.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.61
2.4.0
0.56
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2009-12-30 (14 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2008-10-27 (15 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2012-04-01 (12 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-07 (14 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2008-10-30 (15 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2012-07-16 (11 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
Pier-Luc Duchaine
Andreas Gohr
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Roger Rene Kommer
Jaap Karssenberg
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL V3
GPL 2
GPLv2
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
PHP
Python
Java
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Free
0
0
Development status
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, small and big team
personal, small to medium companies
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Private users, small teams
Any
System Requirements Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zwiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki
Operating System
Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux, Windows, OSX
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Zope
All Java Servlet Container, included
None
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
various opt. helpers
Datastorage Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zwiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Other
None
ZODB (zope object database)
Google Datastore
Text Files with index in SQLite
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zwiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Internal and external with adapter
File permissions
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Patch
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Patch
No
No
No
Development/Support Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zwiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
4 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zwiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zwiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
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
2
German, English
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
No
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Patch
Links Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zwiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zwiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
All
None
Some
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
DTML
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
None
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zwiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
No
Yes
Optional
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Statistics Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zwiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Output Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zwiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zwiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
No
No
Extras Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zwiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiki CSharp .NET DokuWiki Zwiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki
Internal Link
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
[[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://example.com]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
=== Heading ===
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
*Bold*
**bold**
*Bold Format*
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
=Italic=
//italics//
_Italic format_
//italic//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
_Underline_
__underlined__
+Unterlined+
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
[|Monospace formate|]
''monospace''
{{Monospace}}
``monospace``
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
-Strike-
<del>strikethrough</del>
-StrikeThrough-
~~strike~~
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript^
^{sup}
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript~
_{sub}
<sub>below</sub>
Images
[$Image file$]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
{{./image.png}}
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
Plugin
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
not implemented
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
N/A
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
indent with tabs
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
-list1
--list2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
#list1
##list2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
# list
Definition Lists
Plugin
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
not implemented
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
___
----
----
not implemented
----
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