Zim vs. DokuWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. XWiki

General Features Zim DokuWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki XWiki
Version
0.56
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.32.2
2.67
16.2.0
Last Release Date
2012-04-01 (12 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
2024-03-24 (26 days ago)
Last Update here
2012-07-16 (11 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
2024-03-25 (25 days ago)
Author
Jaap Karssenberg
Andreas Gohr
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Python
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Files, RCS
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private users, small teams
personal, small to medium companies
Any
End Users/Desktop, Education
Anyone
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Zim DokuWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements Zim DokuWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki XWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OSX
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
None
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Any, or none
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
various opt. helpers
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Zim DokuWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
Text Files with index in SQLite
None
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam Zim DokuWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki XWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File permissions
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Yes
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
No
Yes
Development/Support Zim DokuWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Zim DokuWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki XWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Zim DokuWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
1
English
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links Zim DokuWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Zim DokuWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki XWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Some
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
none
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
None
Optional, PHP
plugins, templates, PHP
Optional
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability Zim DokuWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics Zim DokuWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki XWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Output Zim DokuWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files Zim DokuWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Zim DokuWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki XWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples Zim DokuWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki XWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[internal]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
External Link
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://example.org The title]
[link text](http://example.org)
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
=== Heading ===
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
``monospace``
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


<tt>monospace</tt>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
~~strike~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>striked through</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^{sup}
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
_{sub}
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
{{./image.png}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[ 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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
Aligning Text
not implemented
Plugin
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
indent with tabs
N/A
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
not implemented
Plugin
Term:<def>
def
; term : definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
not implemented
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Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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