PageWork vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. TracWiki vs. PBwiki

General Features PageWork Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki PBwiki
Version
0.4.8
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
0.11.5
N/A
Last Release Date
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
2024-04-01 (18 days ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Pitt Murmann
Tiki Software Community Association
Edgewall Software
PBworks
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
License
GPLv3
LGPL
Modified BSD license
N/A
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
N/A
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Database
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
none
0
0
Determined by Solution Needs
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
N/A
Intended Audience
Medium-sized sites
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Software development teams
Business Enterprises
Hosting Features PageWork Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki PBwiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
No limit
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
No limit
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
None
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
None
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
System Requirements PageWork Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki PBwiki
Operating System
Any
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
N/A
Root Access
No
No
No
N/A
Webserver
Any
Works on standard shared hosting
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
N/A
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
None
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
N/A
Datastorage PageWork Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki PBwiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
N/A
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
N/A
Oracle
No
No
No
N/A
SQLite
Patch
No
Yes
N/A
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
N/A
RCS
No
No
No
N/A
Other
MariaDB
0
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam PageWork Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki PBwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Proprietary
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
N/A
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
No
Development/Support PageWork Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki PBwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PageWork Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki PBwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PageWork Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki PBwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
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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, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
141
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, Javanese, 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
Email notification
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Links PageWork Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki PBwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features PageWork Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki PBwiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
yes, using Python
Javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Usability PageWork Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki PBwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Optional
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Statistics PageWork Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki PBwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Optional
Output PageWork Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki PBwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PageWork Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki PBwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
No
Contents
Extras PageWork Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki PBwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PageWork Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki PBwiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[http://www.externallink.com]
Headlines
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
Bold Format
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
__bold__
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
''italic''
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
This is __underlined__.
===underline===
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
This is %%monospaced%%.
-+monospace+-
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
<code>monospace</code>
Strikethrough Format
This is --not-- important.
--strike--
~~strike-through~~
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
{SUB()}text{SUB}
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
Aligning Text
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
::centered text::
<left>, <center>, <right>
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
leading spaces, if activated.
Indented block
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
Numbered Lists
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# Number #1
# Number #2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
;term:definition
term::
definition
<dl>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
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