PageWork vs. TightWiki

General Features PageWork TightWiki
Version
0.4.8
2.39.3
Last Release Date
2010-07-20 (16 years ago)
2026-10-03 (13 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
2026-10-06 (10 days ago)
Author
Pitt Murmann
NetworkDLS
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
MIT
Programming Language
PHP
C#
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
none
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Medium-sized sites
Small to medium business and personal use.
System Requirements PageWork TightWiki
Operating System
Any
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Any
IIS / Kestrel / nginx
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
.NET runtime
Datastorage PageWork TightWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
Patch
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
RCS
No
No
Other
Security/Anti-Spam PageWork TightWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Proprietary
yes
Host Blocking
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Plugin
Development/Support PageWork TightWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features PageWork TightWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features PageWork TightWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
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Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Moldavian, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Optional
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Links PageWork TightWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PageWork TightWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
TightWiki proprietary
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Usability PageWork TightWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Statistics PageWork TightWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Output PageWork TightWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Media and Files PageWork TightWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras PageWork TightWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples PageWork TightWiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
[[Home, Take me home]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
[[https://Tightwiki.com, Go to TightWiki]]
Headlines
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
==Header
===Sub Header
Bold Format
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
**this is bold**
Italics Format
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
//this is Italic//
Underline Format
This is __underlined__.
__this is underline__
Monospace Format
This is %%monospaced%%.
{{Code(bash)
This is syntax highlighted monospace text.
}}
Strikethrough Format
This is --not-- important.
~~this is strikethrough~~
Superscript Format
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
^^^Large
^^^^Larger
^^^^^Even larger
Subscript Format
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Would require a plugin.
Images
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
##Image(download.jpg)
Aligning Text
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
{{Blockquote(Center, This is the caption)
This is the content text
}}

-or-

{{Figure(Center, This is the caption)
This is the content text
}}
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Ony inside bulleted or numbered lists, otherwise would require a plugin.
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
{{Bullets
Item 1
>Sub item 1.1
>Sub item 1.2
Item 2
>Sub item 2.1
}}
Numbered Lists
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
{{Bullets(Ordered)
Item 1
>Sub item 1.1
>Sub item 1.2
Item 2
>Sub item 2.1
}}
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Would require a plugin.
Horizontal Rule
---
##HR
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