MediaWiki vs. Zwiki vs. PageWork

General Features MediaWiki Zwiki PageWork
Version
1.32.2
0.61
0.4.8
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2010-07-20 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Pitt Murmann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPLv2
GPLv3
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Medium-sized sites
System Requirements MediaWiki Zwiki PageWork
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Zope
Any
Other Requirements
none
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage MediaWiki Zwiki PageWork
Text Files
No
Plugin
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Plugin
No
Oracle
Yes
Plugin
No
SQLite
Yes
Unknown
Patch
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
Yes
RCS
No
Unknown
No
Other
No
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki Zwiki PageWork
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Proprietary
Host Blocking
Yes
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Patch
Yes
Development/Support MediaWiki Zwiki PageWork
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki Zwiki PageWork
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki Zwiki PageWork
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
0
2
German, English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links MediaWiki Zwiki PageWork
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Unknown
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki Zwiki PageWork
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Patch
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
No
Optional
Plugin
Scripting
Optional
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability MediaWiki Zwiki PageWork
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Patch
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics MediaWiki Zwiki PageWork
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Optional
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
No
No
Output MediaWiki Zwiki PageWork
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Unknown
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki Zwiki PageWork
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras MediaWiki Zwiki PageWork
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
No
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki Zwiki PageWork
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
Italics Format
''italic''
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
: indented line
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
Definition Lists
; term : definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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