PageWork vs. Foswiki vs. alphawiki

General Features PageWork Foswiki alphawiki
Version
0.4.8
2.1.11
v.20160608
Last Release Date
2010-07-20 (16 years ago)
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
2016-08-06 (9 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
2016-09-10 (9 years ago)
Author
Pitt Murmann
Foswiki Community
marty alain
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
GPL
GNU-GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP+Javascript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
none
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Medium-sized sites
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
private users, small teams
System Requirements PageWork Foswiki alphawiki
Operating System
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
probably every OS
Root Access
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Any
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache with PHP support
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage PageWork Foswiki alphawiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Patch
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
None
Security/Anti-Spam PageWork Foswiki alphawiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Proprietary
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
No
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Plugin
No
Development/Support PageWork Foswiki alphawiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PageWork Foswiki alphawiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PageWork Foswiki alphawiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
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
1
English
Email notification
No
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links PageWork Foswiki alphawiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
Optional
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features PageWork Foswiki alphawiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability PageWork Foswiki alphawiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Optional
Statistics PageWork Foswiki alphawiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Output PageWork Foswiki alphawiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Optional
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PageWork Foswiki alphawiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras PageWork Foswiki alphawiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PageWork Foswiki alphawiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
Headlines
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
Bold Format
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
*bold*
{b I am bold}
Italics Format
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
_italic_
{i I am italic}
Underline Format
This is __underlined__.
<u>underline</u>
{u I am underline}
Monospace Format
This is %%monospaced%%.
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
Strikethrough Format
This is --not-- important.
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{del I am line-through}
Superscript Format
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
E = mc{sup 2}
Subscript Format
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
<sub>subscript</sub>
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
Images
{{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"}%
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
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 I am centered}
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
Horizontal Rule
---
---
{hr}
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