PageWork vs. Wala Wiki vs. XWiki

General Features PageWork Wala Wiki XWiki
Version
0.4.8
1.1.7
18.4.1
Last Release Date
2010-07-20 (15 years ago)
2026-03-20 (3 months ago)
2026-06-15 (5 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
2026-06-16 (4 days ago)
Author
Pitt Murmann
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
Public Domain
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
none
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Medium-sized sites
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features PageWork Wala Wiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements PageWork Wala Wiki XWiki
Operating System
Any
Linux, *BSD
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Any that supports basic CGI.
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage PageWork Wala Wiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Patch
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
diffs
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 Wala Wiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Proprietary
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Yes
Development/Support PageWork Wala Wiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PageWork Wala Wiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features PageWork Wala Wiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
No
Interface Languages
2
German, English
1
English
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
No
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Optional
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links PageWork Wala Wiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features PageWork Wala Wiki XWiki
HTML Tags
All
None
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Yes
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Usability PageWork Wala Wiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics PageWork Wala Wiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Output PageWork Wala Wiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Optional
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files PageWork Wala Wiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
No
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras PageWork Wala Wiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples PageWork Wala Wiki XWiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
LinkDump, [link dump]
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://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
= headline =
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
'''bolded'''
**bold**
Italics Format
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
''italicized''
//Italics//
Underline Format
This is __underlined__.
__underline__
Monospace Format
This is %%monospaced%%.
monospaced.
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
This is --not-- important.
--Strike--
Superscript Format
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
,,subscript,,
Images
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
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}}
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
:Block-quoted text.
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
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
# One
# Two
# Three
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
: term : definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
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