| General Features | PageWork | Foswiki | PukiWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.4.8
|
2.1.11
|
1.5.1
|
| Last Release Date |
2010-07-20 (16 years ago)
|
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
|
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
|
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
|
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
|
| Author |
Pitt Murmann
|
Foswiki Community
|
PukiWiki Development Team
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPLv3
|
GPL
|
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Perl
|
PHP
|
| 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
|
One theme, one PukiWiki
|
| System Requirements | PageWork | Foswiki | PukiWiki |
| Operating System |
Any
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
OS independent
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any
|
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
|
| Datastorage | PageWork | Foswiki | PukiWiki |
| 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
|
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | PageWork | Foswiki | PukiWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Proprietary
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Development/Support | PageWork | Foswiki | PukiWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel |
#pukiwiki
|
||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
118 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | PageWork | Foswiki | PukiWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Number
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
To current
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | PageWork | Foswiki | PukiWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| 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 |
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi |
| Email notification |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Links | PageWork | Foswiki | PukiWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | PageWork | Foswiki | PukiWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
All
|
Plugin
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
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
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | PageWork | Foswiki | PukiWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | PageWork | Foswiki | PukiWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Output | PageWork | Foswiki | PukiWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Themes & Skins |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Raw Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| HTML Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | PageWork | Foswiki | PukiWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Contents
|
No
|
| Extras | PageWork | Foswiki | PukiWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | PageWork | Foswiki | PukiWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[link]] [[link|alternate text]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
PageNameAsWikiName [[PageName]] [[link text>PageName]] |
| External Link |
http://www.wikimatrix.org/ |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
http://.... [[link text>http://....]] [[interwiki:keyphrase]] [[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]] |
| Headlines |
= L1 = == L2 == === L3 === ==== L4 ==== ===== L5 ===== = L1 == L2 === L3 ==== L4 ===== L5 |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
* Level 1 ** Level 2 *** Level 3 |
| Bold Format |
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong). This is **bold**, too. |
*bold* |
''bold'' |
| Italics Format |
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized). This is in //italics//, too. |
_italic_ |
'''italic''' |
| Underline Format |
This is __underlined__. |
<u>underline</u> |
%%%underlined%%% |
| Monospace Format |
This is %%monospaced%%. |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
N/A |
| Strikethrough Format |
This is --not-- important. |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
%%strikethrough%% |
| Superscript Format |
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
N/A |
| Subscript Format |
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^} |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
N/A |
| 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"}% |
#ref(pagename/filename[,option]) &ref(pagename/filename[,option]); &ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]); http://foo.bar/foo.jpg |
| 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:center RIGHT:right LEFT:left |
| Text Indentation |
> L1 quote >> L2 quote |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
N/A |
| Bulleted Lists |
* one * two ** two alpha ** two beta * three |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
- Item 1 -- Item 1.1 - Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# one # two ## two alpha ## two beta # three |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
+ Item 1 ++ Item 1.1 + Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
: term : definition |
$ Term: Definition |
:term|definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
--- |
-------------------- |
| remove PageWork | remove Foswiki | remove PukiWiki |