PageWork vs. ProWiki vs. TWiki

General Features PageWork ProWiki TWiki
Version
0.4.8
2.0.045
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2010-07-20 (15 years ago)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Pitt Murmann
Helmut Leitner
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
none
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Medium-sized sites
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements PageWork ProWiki TWiki
Operating System
Any
Unix / Linux
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage PageWork ProWiki TWiki
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
Yes
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam PageWork ProWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Proprietary
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Plugin
Development/Support PageWork ProWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PageWork ProWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features PageWork ProWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
No
Interface Languages
2
German, English
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
No
Yes
Links PageWork ProWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PageWork ProWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Usability PageWork ProWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics PageWork ProWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Output PageWork ProWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Optional
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PageWork ProWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras PageWork ProWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PageWork ProWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
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>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
This is %%monospaced%%.
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
This is --not-- important.
[[strike]strikethrough text]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
<sup>text</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
<sub>text</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}}
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
: indented line
:: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
# numbered list
## numbered list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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