PageWork vs. DokuWiki vs. Zim vs. Git-Wiki vs. ButorWiki

General Features PageWork DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki ButorWiki
Version
0.4.8
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.56
1.0
2.2.1
Last Release Date
2010-07-20 (15 years ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2012-04-02 (13 years ago)
2007-03-09 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
2022-04-17 (3 years ago)
2007-07-30 (18 years ago)
Author
Pitt Murmann
Andreas Gohr
Jaap Karssenberg
Aiman Sawan
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
GPL 2
GPL
MIT
LGPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files, RCS
RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
none
0
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Medium-sized sites
personal, small to medium companies
Private users, small teams
Private, Public
SMB
System Requirements PageWork DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki ButorWiki
Operating System
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OSX
*nix
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
None
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Any webserver
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Ruby
Tomcat 4.1 +
Datastorage PageWork DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki ButorWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Patch
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
None
Text Files with index in SQLite
Git
Security/Anti-Spam PageWork DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki ButorWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Proprietary
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
File permissions
Plugin system, backends can be added
None
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
No
Unknown
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Optional
No
No
Unknown
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
No
Yes
Development/Support PageWork DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki ButorWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4578 ⭐
N/A
242 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PageWork DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki ButorWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features PageWork DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki ButorWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
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
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
Czech, German, English, French
1
English
Email notification
No
Optional
No
No
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
No
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Links PageWork DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki ButorWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
Optional
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features PageWork DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki ButorWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
None
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Custom styles
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
None
XML based, Javascript
Internal Macros
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Usability PageWork DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki ButorWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
No
Statistics PageWork DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki ButorWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Output PageWork DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki ButorWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
XML export
No
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PageWork DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki ButorWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Contents
Keywords
Extras PageWork DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki ButorWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PageWork DokuWiki Zim Git-Wiki ButorWiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
<a href="..."></a>
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
[[http://example.org|The title]]
<a href="..."></a>
Headlines
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
=== Heading ===
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
...
Bold Format
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
<b>Bold</b>
Italics Format
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
//italics//
//italic//
//italic//
<i>Italics</i>
Underline Format
This is __underlined__.
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>Underline</u>
Monospace Format
This is %%monospaced%%.
''monospace''
``monospace``
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
This is --not-- important.
<del>strikethrough</del>
~~strike~~
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^{sup}
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
<sub>subscript</sub>
_{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}}
{{./image.png}}
{{Image.png}}
Aligning Text
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Plugin
not implemented
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
N/A
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Plugin
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
---
----
not implemented
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