ikiwiki vs. ProWiki vs. WiGit

General Features ikiwiki ProWiki WiGit
Version
2.67
2.0.045
0.1
Last Release Date
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2008-07-21 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2009-07-09 (16 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Helmut Leitner
Remko Tronçon
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
other
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Anyone
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Private users
System Requirements ikiwiki ProWiki WiGit
Operating System
Any
Unix / Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Other Requirements
none
Git
Datastorage ikiwiki ProWiki WiGit
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
No
Other
Git repositories
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki ProWiki WiGit
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
No
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support ikiwiki ProWiki WiGit
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ikiwiki ProWiki WiGit
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin System
Yes
No
No
Special Features ikiwiki ProWiki WiGit
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
1
English
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Unknown
Links ikiwiki ProWiki WiGit
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
No
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features ikiwiki ProWiki WiGit
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
No
Usability ikiwiki ProWiki WiGit
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
Access Keys
No
No
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics ikiwiki ProWiki WiGit
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Output ikiwiki ProWiki WiGit
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
No
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ikiwiki ProWiki WiGit
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
Extras ikiwiki ProWiki WiGit
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
Yes
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ikiwiki ProWiki WiGit
Internal Link
[[internal]]
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
[InternalLink]
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
"External link":http://externallink.com
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
h1. Headline
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
*Bold*
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italic''
_Italics_
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
+underlined+
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
<tt>monospace</tt>
@monospace@
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
[[strike]strikethrough text]
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>text</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>text</sub>
~subscript~
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
!image.jpg!
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
>Right-aligned
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* Bulleted
* List
** Sublist
Numbered Lists
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# numbered list
## numbered list
# Numbered
# List
## Sublist
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
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Any number > 3
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spaces don't matter
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