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|name            = <big>Zim</big> –<br><small>''a desktop wiki''</small><!--if engine name is different from article name, and/or has tagline-->

|founder          = Jaap Karssenberg <small>(founder)</small><!--founder & other position(s); wikilink if needed-->

|CEO              = Jaap Karssenberg <small>(owner)</small><!--https://GitHub.com/zim-desktop-wiki/zim-desktop-wiki/blob/master/README.md-->

|status          = Active<!--'Active' if available, 'Dead' if not, 'Dormant' if available but no staff support-->

'''Zim – ''a desktop wiki''''', also stylised as '''zim-wiki''', is a free {{tag|wiki engine}} compiled in the {{tag|Python}} programming language, created by Jaap Karssenberg, and is available in 27 [[:Category:Wiki Language|user-interface languages]], and will run on Linux, M$ Windows, or Mac OSX.  It looks visually similar to a PIM software package, such as M$ Outlook.

It is a graphical text editor, and its pages are stored in a folder structure, and can contain attachments.  Zim stores all of its data in plain text files with wiki formatting (it does not, and can not use any of the established database services for data storage, though it ''does'' support indexing with SQLite).  Various [https://Zim-wiki.org/manual/Plugins.html plugins] are available, and provide additional functionality, such as a task list manager, an equation editor, a tray icon, and support for {{tag|version control}}.  Zim supports most of the common [[:Category:Wiki syntax|wiki syntax]] methods for link creation; including [[CamelCase]], [[free link]]s, [[backlink]]s, and [[interwiki]], but does <u>''not''</u> support page [[redirect]]s, structured data, nor [[sister wiki]] and [[:Category:HTML|HTML]] tags (although you can [https://Zim-wiki.org/manual/Help/Export.html export to HTML and LaTeX]).

Still actively developed as of 2022, Zim is [https://Zim-wiki.org/downloads.html released] for {{tag|Free software|free}} as {{tag|FOSS|Free and Open Source Software}} (FOSS) under version 2 of the {{tag|GNU General Public License}} (GPL v2).