ikiwiki vs. PageWork vs. Foswiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki PukiWiki
Version
2.67
0.4.8
2.1.11
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2010-07-20 (16 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Pitt Murmann
Foswiki Community
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPLv3
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
none
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
Medium-sized sites
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki PukiWiki
Operating System
Any
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
Any
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki PukiWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Patch
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Yes
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Proprietary
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
Patch
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
No
Plugin
Patch
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Development/Support ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki PukiWiki
# 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
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
No
Interface Languages
1
English
2
German, English
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Links ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Plugin
Patch
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
No
Statistics ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
No
Output ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki PukiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki PukiWiki
Internal Link
[[internal]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

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

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
*bold*
''bold''
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
_italic_
'''italic'''
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
This is __underlined__.
<u>underline</u>
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
This is %%monospaced%%.
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
N/A
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
This is --not-- important.
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
N/A
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
<sub>subscript</sub>
N/A
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}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
---
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