PageWork vs. DokuWiki vs. wxWikiServer vs. Git-Wiki

General Features PageWork DokuWiki wxWikiServer Git-Wiki
Version
0.4.8
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.5.11c
1.0
Last Release Date
2010-07-20 (15 years ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2006-02-07 (19 years ago)
2022-04-17 (3 years ago)
Author
Pitt Murmann
Andreas Gohr
Ryan Norton
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
GPL 2
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
MIT
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
C++
Ruby
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files
RCS
License Cost/ Fee
none
0
NA
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Medium-sized sites
personal, small to medium companies
End users/Desktop
Private, Public
System Requirements PageWork DokuWiki wxWikiServer Git-Wiki
Operating System
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
*nix
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
built-in
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
None
Ruby
Datastorage PageWork DokuWiki wxWikiServer Git-Wiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Patch
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Other
None
Git
Security/Anti-Spam PageWork DokuWiki wxWikiServer Git-Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Proprietary
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
unknown
Plugin system, backends can be added
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
No
Development/Support PageWork DokuWiki wxWikiServer Git-Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4521 ⭐
N/A
242 ⭐
Common Features PageWork DokuWiki wxWikiServer Git-Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features PageWork DokuWiki wxWikiServer Git-Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Interface Languages
2
German, English
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
4
Czech, German, English, French
Email notification
No
Optional
No
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Links PageWork DokuWiki wxWikiServer Git-Wiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Optional
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features PageWork DokuWiki wxWikiServer Git-Wiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
no
XML based, Javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Usability PageWork DokuWiki wxWikiServer Git-Wiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Statistics PageWork DokuWiki wxWikiServer Git-Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
Output PageWork DokuWiki wxWikiServer Git-Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PageWork DokuWiki wxWikiServer Git-Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras PageWork DokuWiki wxWikiServer Git-Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PageWork DokuWiki wxWikiServer Git-Wiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
[[http://example.org|The title]]
Headlines
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
Bold Format
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
**bold**
''' bold text '''
**bold**
Italics Format
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
//italics//
'' italic text ''
//italic//
Underline Format
This is __underlined__.
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
This is %%monospaced%%.
''monospace''
start line with blank space.
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
This is --not-- important.
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
{{Image.png}}
Aligning Text
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Plugin
] centred text
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
N/A
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
* two
* two.1
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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