ikiwiki vs. PageWork

General Features ikiwiki PageWork
Version
2.67
0.4.8
Last Release Date
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2010-07-20 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Pitt Murmann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPLv3
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
Medium-sized sites
System Requirements ikiwiki PageWork
Operating System
Any
Any
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
Any
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage ikiwiki PageWork
Text Files
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
No
Patch
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
RCS
Yes
No
Other
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki PageWork
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Proprietary
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Development/Support ikiwiki PageWork
# 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 ikiwiki PageWork
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features ikiwiki PageWork
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
2
German, English
Email notification
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Links ikiwiki PageWork
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features ikiwiki PageWork
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Usability ikiwiki PageWork
Section Editing
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Statistics ikiwiki PageWork
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Analysis
No
No
Output ikiwiki PageWork
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ikiwiki PageWork
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras ikiwiki PageWork
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ikiwiki PageWork
Internal Link
[[internal]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
Aligning Text
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
Numbered Lists
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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