PageWork vs. TWiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features PageWork TWiki PukiWiki
Version
0.4.8
TWiki-6.1.0
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2010-07-20 (16 years ago)
2018-07-16 (8 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-23 (16 years ago)
2019-07-19 (7 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
Pitt Murmann
Peter Thoeny, TWiki 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, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
none
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Medium-sized sites
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements PageWork TWiki PukiWiki
Operating System
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
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 TWiki 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
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam PageWork TWiki 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
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Patch
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Plugin
No
Development/Support PageWork TWiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PageWork TWiki 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 TWiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
No
Interface Languages
2
German, English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Links PageWork TWiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Patch
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features PageWork TWiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
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
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability PageWork TWiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics PageWork TWiki 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 TWiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Plugin
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
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PageWork TWiki 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 TWiki PukiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PageWork TWiki 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/
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.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
#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
---
---
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