PageWork vs. Foswiki vs. WikiCrowd vs. PukiWiki

General Features PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd PukiWiki
Version
0.4.8
2.1.11
0.0.16
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2010-07-20 (16 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
29 Nov, 2010
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2010-11-29 (15 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
Pitt Murmann
Foswiki Community
Stas Davydov
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
GPL
LGPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP, XSL, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
none
$0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Medium-sized sites
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Personal, Corporate, Community
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd PukiWiki
Operating System
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Any
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache
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
PHP 5.2 or later, Apache mod_rewrite, iconv
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd PukiWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
No
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
No
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Proprietary
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
No
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
Patch
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
118 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Yes
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
2
English, Russian
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
No
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Links PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd PukiWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Features PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd PukiWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Plugin, JavaScript
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Usability PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd PukiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Statistics PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
No
Output PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
No
No
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
No
No
Extras PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd PukiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd PukiWiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
@page "Another Wiki Page"
@page[Wiki Page] "Link to Wiki Page"
@page[Wiki Page]
[[Wiki Page or URL]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
@page[http://wikimatrix.org]
@page[http://wikimatrix.org] "It's a link to WikiMatrix"
[[http://wikimatrix.org]]
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
@title Some Title
@subtitle Some Subtitle
@subsubtitle Some Subsubtitle
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
*bold*
*bold*
''bold''
Italics Format
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
_italic_
//italic//
'''italic'''
Underline Format
This is __underlined__.
<u>underline</u>
No
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
This is %%monospaced%%.
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
No
N/A
Strikethrough Format
This is --not-- important.
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
No
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
N/A
Subscript Format
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
<sub>subscript</sub>
_subscript_
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"}%
@img url
#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
No
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
No
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
@listitem Red
Green
Blue
- 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
No
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
No
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
---
---
No
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