PBwiki vs. PhpWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features PBwiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
Version
N/A
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.67
Last Release Date
N/A
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
PBworks
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
N/A
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
Any
Anyone
Hosting Features PBwiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
Storage Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
System Requirements PBwiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
N/A
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
Other Requirements
N/A
various opt. helpers
Datastorage PBwiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
Yes
MySQL
N/A
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
No
Oracle
N/A
Yes
No
SQLite
N/A
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
Yes
No
RCS
N/A
Yes
Yes
Other
N/A
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support PBwiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
No
No
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PBwiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PBwiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Links PBwiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features PBwiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
Javascript
plugins, templates, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability PBwiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics PBwiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
No
Output PBwiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PBwiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras PBwiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PBwiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[internal]]
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<strike>striked through</strike>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
Indented block
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* list
or
- list
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
# Number #1
# Number #2
# list
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
Term:<def>
def
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
---
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove PBwiki remove PhpWiki remove ikiwiki