| General Features | BoltWire  | DokuWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware  | Wiclear  |
Version |
3.3.6 (probably later, check the site) |
2012-01-25 "Angua" |
phpwiki-1.3.14 |
2.2.19 |
8.3 |
1.0 |
Last Release Date |
01/20/2010 |
2012-01-25 |
2007-07-01 |
2010-11-10 |
2012-1-17 |
2007-08-07 |
Author |
Dan Vis |
Andreas Gohr |
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau |
Patrick R. Michaud |
Tiki Software Community Association |
David Jobet |
URL |
www.boltwire.com |
www.dokuwiki.org |
phpwiki.sourceforge.net |
www.pmwiki.org |
tiki.org |
wiclear.free.fr |
Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
License |
Custom - Free |
GPL 2 |
GPL |
GPL2 |
LGPL |
GPL2 |
Programming Language |
php |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
Data Storage |
Files |
Files |
Files, DB, RCS |
Files |
Database |
Database |
License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Intended Audience |
General Users & Advanced Developers |
private, small to medium companies |
Any |
All |
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc. |
private users |
| System Requirements | BoltWire  | DokuWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware  | Wiclear  |
Operating System |
Windows, Mac, Unix, etc. |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others |
All |
Root Access |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Webserver |
Any with PHP support |
Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver. |
Works on standard shared hosting |
Apache |
Other Requirements |
 None |
|
various opt. helpers |
 none |
 None |
MySql |
| Datastorage | BoltWire  | DokuWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware  | Wiclear  |
Text Files |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
MySQL |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
PostgreSQL |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Oracle |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
SQLite |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
BerkeleyDB |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
RCS |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Other |
Easily Customizable Datastorage |
 None |
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB) |
Can provide custom data backends |
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | BoltWire  | DokuWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware  | Wiclear  |
Page Permissions |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
ACL |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Authentication Backends |
Easily Customizable Authentication |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory |
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver |
.htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory, MySQL, (custom available) |
OpenID, Active directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, POP3, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication |
|
Host Blocking |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Mail Encryption |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
nofollow |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
Blacklist |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 No |
 Yes |
CAPTCHA |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Delayed Indexing |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
| Development/Support | BoltWire  | DokuWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware  | Wiclear  |
Commercial Support |
 Yes, 1 listed |
 Yes, 32 listed |
 Yes, 2 listed |
 Yes, 7 listed |
 Yes, 48 listed |
 No |
Preconfigured Hosting |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
Code Repository |
www.boltwire.com |
github.com |
sf.net |
svn://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/tags/latest |
tikiwiki.svn.sourceforge.net |
wiclear.free.fr |
Issue Tracker |
www.boltwire.com |
bugs.splitbrain.org |
sf.net |
www.pmwiki.org |
dev.tiki.org |
wiclear.free.fr |
Mailing List |
www.boltwire.com |
www.freelists.org |
sf.net |
www.pmichaud.com |
sourceforge.net |
wiclear@ml.free.fr |
Support Forum |
www.boltwire.com |
forum.dokuwiki.org |
sf.net |
www.pmichaud.com |
tiki.org |
wiclear.free.fr |
IRC Channel |
 None |
www.dokuwiki.org |
#phpwiki |
#pmwiki on irc.freenode.net |
irc://irc.freenode.org/tikiwiki |
|
| Common Features | BoltWire  | DokuWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware  | Wiclear  |
Preview |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Minor Changes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Change Summary |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Page History |
 Yes |
 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 |
Page Index |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
Plugin System |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Special Features | BoltWire  | DokuWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware  | Wiclear  |
Unicode Support |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Right-to-Left Support |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
|
 Yes |
 No |
Interface Languages |
 6 languages German, English, Italian, Swedish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
 55 languages Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Marathi, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
 9 languages German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional |
 27 languages Breton, Catalan, Danish, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Vietnamese |
 34 languages Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
 7 languages English, French, German, Russian, Slovenian, Dutch, Italian |
Email notification |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Comments |
Threaded |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Threaded |
Flat |
Categories |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Namespaces |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
Page Redirection |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Page Locking |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Detection |
Conflict Resolution |
Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Wiki Farming |
 Yes |
 Patch |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
|
Structured Data |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Patch |
 Yes |
 Yes |
|
| Links | BoltWire  | DokuWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware  | Wiclear  |
CamelCase |
 Optional |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Optional |
 Yes |
Freelinks |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Backlinks |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
InterWiki |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
SisterWiki |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Image Links |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Windows Shares |
|
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
Page Redirects |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
|
| Syntax Features | BoltWire  | DokuWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware  | Wiclear  |
HTML Tags |
Some |
 Optional |
Some |
 Plugin |
 Optional |
 Optional |
Math formulas |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 No |
Tables |
complex |
simple |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple |
CREOLE support |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Optional |
 No |
 No |
Markdown Support |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
Textile Support |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
BBCode Support |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Emoticon Images |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Syntax Highlighting |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
Footnotes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Quoting |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Internal Comments |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Custom styles |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
FAQ Tags |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
Scripting |
Yes, multiple kinds |
Optional, PHP |
plugins, templates, PHP |
 Plugin |
Dynamic Variables more info ===>> |
Not at the moment |
Content Includes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
Feed Aggregation |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Usability | BoltWire  | DokuWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware  | Wiclear  |
Section Editing |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Page Templates |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
|
Double-Click Edit |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Optional |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
Toolbar |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
WYSIWYG Editing |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Patch |
 Plugin |
 Optional |
 No |
Access Keys |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Auto Signature |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Patch |
 No |
| Statistics | BoltWire  | DokuWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware  | Wiclear  |
Recent Changes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Wanted Pages |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 No |
Orphaned Pages |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 No |
Most/Least Popular |
 Optional |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
Recent Visitors |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
Analysis |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
| Output | BoltWire  | DokuWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware  | Wiclear  |
HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
CSS Stylesheets |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Printer Friendly |
Print View |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Print View |
Print View |
Print View |
Mobile Friendly |
 Optional |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
|
Themes & Skins |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
RSS Feeds |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
ATOM Feeds |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Abbreviations |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Auto-TOC |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Raw Export |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
HTML Export |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
XML export |
 Optional |
 No |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
PDF Export |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 No |
| Media and Files | BoltWire  | DokuWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware  | Wiclear  |
File Attachments |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Media Revisions |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 No |
Embedded Flash |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
Embedded Video |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
Image Editing |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
SVG Editing |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
MindMap Editing |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
|
 Plugin |
 No |
Media Search |
 No |
Filenames only |
 No |
 No |
Contents |
 No |
| Extras | BoltWire  | DokuWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware  | Wiclear  |
Calendar |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
|
Image Galleries |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
|
Forums |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
|
Blogs |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
|
Ticket System |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
|
| Syntax Examples | BoltWire  | DokuWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware  | Wiclear  |
Internal Link |
 [[link|label]] |
 [[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]] |
 WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ] |
 [[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[page name #anchor]] |
 ((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords |
 [Title] |
External Link |
 [[www.example.com]] |
 [[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
 http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ] |
 http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]] |
 [http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label] |
 [Title|http://url.to/] |
Headlines |
 ! Header 1
!! Header 2
!!! Header 3 |
 ====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 == |
 !!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
|
 ! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3 |
 -= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5 |
 !title1
!!title2
!!!title3 |
Bold Format |
 **bold**
<b>bold</b> |
 **bold** |
 *bold* or
<strong>bold</strong> |
 '''bold''' |
 __bold__ |
 __bold__ |
Italics Format |
 //italics//
<i>italics</i> |
 //italics// |
 _italics_ or
or
<em>italics</em> |
 ''italic'' |
 ''italic'' |
 ''italic'' |
Underline Format |
 __underline__
<u>underline</u> |
 __underlined__ |
 <u>underlined</u> |
 {+underlined+} |
 ===underline=== |
|
Monospace Format |
 <pre>monospace</pre> |
 ''monospace'' |
 <tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>
|
 @@monospace@@ |
 -+monospace+-
|
  the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
 and it will be pre formatted
|
Strikethrough Format |
 <strike>strike</strike> |
 <del>strikethrough</del> |
 <strike>striked through</strike> |
 {-strikethrough-} |
 --strike-- |
|
Superscript Format |
 ^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup> |
 <sup>superscript</sup> |
 <sup>above</sup> |
 '^superscript^' |
 {SUP()}text{SUP} |
|
Subscript Format |
 <sub>subscript</sub> |
 <sub>subscript</sub> |
 <sub>below</sub> |
 '_subscript_' |
 {SUB()}text{SUB} |
|
Images |
 img:image.gif
[^image.gif parameters^] |
 {{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
|
 http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg |
 {img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg} |
 ((image|title|left|longer description|100|100)) |
Aligning Text |
 <center>text</center>
<right>text</right>
<left>text</left> |
 Plugin
|
 <?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>
|
 %center% centered text
%right% right aligned |
 ::centered text:: |
|
Text Indentation |
 ->
Text
<- |
 N/A
|
 ;: left indent
;;: more left indent
or
  paragraph
    and another level
|
 -> indented text |
 leading spaces, if activated. |
|
Bulleted Lists |
 * Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2 |
  * item 1
   * item 1.1
 * item 2
|
 * list
 or
- list |
 * Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2 |
 * Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2 |
 *item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3 |
Numbered Lists |
 # Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2 |
  - item 1
   - item 1.1
 - item 2
|
 # list |
 # Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2 |
 # Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2 |
 #item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3 |
Definition Lists |
 <dl><dt><dd> |
 Plugin
|
 Term:<def>
 def |
 : term : definition |
 ;term:definition |
 ;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2 |
Horizontal Rule |
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 ---- |
 ---- |
 ---- |
 --- |
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| Last updated | 2010-02-17 | 2012-02-01 | 2009-04-03 | 2010-11-22 | 2012-01-19 | 2007-09-16 |
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