alphawiki vs. PmWiki vs. PageWork vs. Wala Wiki

General Features alphawiki PmWiki PageWork Wala Wiki
Version
v.20160608
2.7.4
0.4.8
1.1.7
Last Release Date
2016-08-06 (9 years ago)
2026-07-31 (2 days ago)
2010-07-20 (16 years ago)
2026-03-02 (5 months ago)
Last Update here
2016-09-10 (9 years ago)
2026-07-31 (2 days ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
Author
marty alain
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Pitt Murmann
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU-GPL
GPL2+
GPLv3
Public Domain
Programming Language
PHP+Javascript
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
none
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users, small teams
All
Medium-sized sites
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
System Requirements alphawiki PmWiki PageWork Wala Wiki
Operating System
probably every OS
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Linux, *BSD
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Any
Any that supports basic CGI.
Other Requirements
none
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
Datastorage alphawiki PmWiki PageWork Wala Wiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
Patch
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
diffs
Security/Anti-Spam alphawiki PmWiki PageWork Wala Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
No
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Proprietary
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
Host Blocking
No
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
No
Development/Support alphawiki PmWiki PageWork Wala Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features alphawiki PmWiki PageWork Wala Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features alphawiki PmWiki PageWork Wala Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Optional
No
Interface Languages
1
English
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
German, English
1
English
Email notification
No
Optional
No
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links alphawiki PmWiki PageWork Wala Wiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features alphawiki PmWiki PageWork Wala Wiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
All
None
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability alphawiki PmWiki PageWork Wala Wiki
Section Editing
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
No
Optional
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics alphawiki PmWiki PageWork Wala Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Optional
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
Output alphawiki PmWiki PageWork Wala Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
RSS Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files alphawiki PmWiki PageWork Wala Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Extras alphawiki PmWiki PageWork Wala Wiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples alphawiki PmWiki PageWork Wala Wiki
Internal Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
LinkDump, [link dump]
External Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
Headlines
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
= headline =
Bold Format
{b I am bold}
'''bold'''
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
'''bolded'''
Italics Format
{i I am italic}
''italic''
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
''italicized''
Underline Format
{u I am underline}
{+underlined+}
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
@@monospace@@
This is %%monospaced%%.
monospaced.
Strikethrough Format
{del I am line-through}
{-strikethrough-}
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
E = mc{sup 2}
'^superscript^'
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
'_subscript_'
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
Aligning Text
{center I am centered}
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
:Block-quoted text.
Bulleted Lists
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
Numbered Lists
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
# One
# Two
# Three
Definition Lists
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
: term : definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
{hr}
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