PageWork vs. ProWiki vs. TWiki vs. WikyBlog vs. XWiki

General Features PageWork ProWiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
Version
0.4.8
2.0.045
TWiki-6.1.0
1.5.4
18.4.1
Last Release Date
2010-07-20 (15 years ago)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2007-10-24 (18 years ago)
2026-06-15 (5 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2007-10-24 (18 years ago)
2026-06-16 (4 days ago)
Author
Pitt Murmann
Helmut Leitner
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Josh Schmidt
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
GPL
GPL
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
none
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
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
Private, Internet Communities
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features PageWork ProWiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements PageWork ProWiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
Operating System
Any
Unix / Linux
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, anything with PHP
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
MySQL
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage PageWork ProWiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Patch
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam PageWork ProWiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Proprietary
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
No
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Development/Support PageWork ProWiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PageWork ProWiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PageWork ProWiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
No
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
5
English, French, Japanese, Turkish, Chinese
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links PageWork ProWiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features PageWork ProWiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
No
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Usability PageWork ProWiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics PageWork ProWiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Output PageWork ProWiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files PageWork ProWiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
No
Contents
Extras PageWork ProWiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples PageWork ProWiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
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
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
''italic''
_italic_
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
This is __underlined__.
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
This is %%monospaced%%.
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
This is --not-- important.
[[strike]strikethrough text]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
<sup>text</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
<sub>text</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
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
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
: indented line
:: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
# numbered list
## numbered list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
: term : definition
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
---
----
----
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