PageWork vs. Zim vs. PodWiki vs. Hatta

General Features PageWork Zim PodWiki Hatta
Version
0.4.8
0.56
0.9.1
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2010-07-20 (15 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
Author
Pitt Murmann
Jaap Karssenberg
Thomas Linden
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
GPL
GPL
GPL v2
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
none
0
GPL / none
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Medium-sized sites
Private users, small teams
average to advanced users
System Requirements PageWork Zim PodWiki Hatta
Operating System
Any
Linux, Windows, OSX
Unix
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
None
apache
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
mod_rewrite optional
Mercurial
Datastorage PageWork Zim PodWiki Hatta
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Patch
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other
Text Files with index in SQLite
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam PageWork Zim PodWiki Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Proprietary
File permissions
builtin
n/a
Host Blocking
No
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
No
No
Blacklist
No
No
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
No
Development/Support PageWork Zim PodWiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#49
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PageWork Zim PodWiki Hatta
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
No
Special Features PageWork Zim PodWiki Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
2
German, English
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
No
No
No
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Links PageWork Zim PodWiki Hatta
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Optional
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Features PageWork Zim PodWiki Hatta
HTML Tags
All
None
Plugin
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Tables
simple
none
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Yes
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
No
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
No
No
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
None
Perl
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
No
Usability PageWork Zim PodWiki Hatta
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
No
Auto Signature
No
No
No
No
Statistics PageWork Zim PodWiki Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
No
No
Output PageWork Zim PodWiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
No
No
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PageWork Zim PodWiki Hatta
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Optional
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Optional
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
No
Filenames only
Extras PageWork Zim PodWiki Hatta
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PageWork Zim PodWiki Hatta
Internal Link 
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
 
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
POD:
L<Sandbox>
L<Link Description|Sandbox>

Creole:
[[Sandbox]]
[[Sandbox|Link Description]]

BBcode:
[url]Sandbox[/url]
[url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url]
 
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
External Link 
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
 
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
 
L<http://www.daemon.de>
 
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
Headlines 
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
 
=== Heading ===
 
=head1 The Weather
 
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format 
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
 
**bold**
 
B<bold>
 
**bold**
Italics Format 
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
 
//italic//
 
I<italics>
 
//italic//
Underline Format 
This is __underlined__.
 
__underline__
 
via html only
 
n/a
Monospace Format 
This is %%monospaced%%.
 
``monospace``
 
put a space in front of monospaced text
 
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format 
This is --not-- important.
 
~~strike~~
 
via html only
 
n/a
Superscript Format 
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
 
^{sup}
 
via html only
 
n/a
Subscript Format 
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
 
_{sub}
 
via html only
 
n/a
Images 
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
 
{{./image.png}}
 
G<logo.png>
 
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
Aligning Text 
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
 
not implemented
 
via stylesheet only
 
n/a
Text Indentation 
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
 
indent with tabs
 
via stylesheet only
 
n/a
Bulleted Lists 
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
 
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
 
=over

=item* listitem

=back
 
* list
** sublist
Numbered Lists 
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
 
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
 
=over

=item 1. listitem

=back
 
n/a
Definition Lists 
: term : definition
 
not implemented
 
via html only
 
n/a
Horizontal Rule 
---
 
not implemented
 
---
 
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