alphawiki vs. ProWiki

General Features alphawiki ProWiki
Version
v.20160608
2.0.045
Last Release Date
2016-08-06 (9 years ago)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-09-10 (9 years ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
Author
marty alain
Helmut Leitner
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GNU-GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP+Javascript
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users, small teams
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
System Requirements alphawiki ProWiki
Operating System
probably every OS
Unix / Linux
Root Access
Yes
No
Webserver
Apache with PHP support
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Other Requirements
none
Datastorage alphawiki ProWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Other
None
Security/Anti-Spam alphawiki ProWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support alphawiki ProWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features alphawiki ProWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Special Features alphawiki ProWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
1
English
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
Email notification
No
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Links alphawiki ProWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Syntax Features alphawiki ProWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Scripting
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Usability alphawiki ProWiki
Section Editing
Optional
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Toolbar
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Access Keys
Optional
No
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Statistics alphawiki ProWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Output alphawiki ProWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Abbreviations
Optional
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
XML export
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files alphawiki ProWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Extras alphawiki ProWiki
Calendar
Optional
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples alphawiki ProWiki
Internal Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
External Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
Headlines
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
Bold Format
{b I am bold}
'''bold'''
Italics Format
{i I am italic}
''italic''
Underline Format
{u I am underline}
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
{del I am line-through}
[[strike]strikethrough text]
Superscript Format
E = mc{sup 2}
<sup>text</sup>
Subscript Format
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
<sub>text</sub>
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"
}}
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
Aligning Text
{center I am centered}
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
Text Indentation
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
: indented line
:: indented line
Bulleted Lists
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
Numbered Lists
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
# numbered list
## numbered list
Definition Lists
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
{hr}
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