alphawiki vs. PmWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. PageWork

General Features alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork
Version
v.20160608
2.7.4
1.5.1
0.4.8
Last Release Date
2016-08-06 (9 years ago)
2026-07-31 (2 days ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2010-07-20 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-09-10 (9 years ago)
2026-07-31 (2 days ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
Author
marty alain
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
PukiWiki Development Team
Pitt Murmann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU-GPL
GPL2+
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPLv3
Programming Language
PHP+Javascript
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users, small teams
All
One theme, one PukiWiki
Medium-sized sites
System Requirements alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork
Operating System
probably every OS
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
Any
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.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any
Other Requirements
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
Patch
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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.
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Proprietary
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Patch
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Yes
Development/Support alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
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
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
2
German, English
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
No
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Links alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Patch
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
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
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork
Section Editing
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
No
Optional
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
No
No
Statistics alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Optional
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
Output alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
HTML Export
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Keywords
Extras alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork
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]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
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://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
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
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
Bold Format
{b I am bold}
'''bold'''
''bold''
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
Italics Format
{i I am italic}
''italic''
'''italic'''
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
Underline Format
{u I am underline}
{+underlined+}
%%%underlined%%%
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
@@monospace@@
N/A
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
{del I am line-through}
{-strikethrough-}
%%strikethrough%%
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
E = mc{sup 2}
'^superscript^'
N/A
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_'
N/A
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
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
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
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
{{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
N/A
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
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
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
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
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
Definition Lists
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
: term : definition
:term|definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
{hr}
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