PBwiki vs. ProWiki

General Features PBwiki ProWiki
Version
N/A
2.0.045
Last Release Date
N/A
2006-10-14 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (16 years ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
Author
PBworks
Helmut Leitner
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
Programming Language
N/A
Perl
Data Storage
N/A
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Hosting Features PBwiki ProWiki
Storage Quota
No limit
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
System Requirements PBwiki ProWiki
Operating System
N/A
Unix / Linux
Root Access
N/A
No
Webserver
N/A
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Other Requirements
N/A
none
Datastorage PBwiki ProWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
MySQL
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Oracle
N/A
No
SQLite
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
RCS
N/A
Yes
Other
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki ProWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support PBwiki ProWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features PBwiki ProWiki
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
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Special Features PBwiki ProWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Links PBwiki ProWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features PBwiki ProWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Scripting
Javascript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Usability PBwiki ProWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Statistics PBwiki ProWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Output PBwiki ProWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PBwiki ProWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Yes
MindMap Editing
Yes
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Extras PBwiki ProWiki
Calendar
Yes
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PBwiki ProWiki
Internal Link 
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
 
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
External Link 
[http://www.externallink.com]
 
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
Headlines 
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
 
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
Bold Format 
**bold**
 
'''bold'''
Italics Format 
''italics''
 
''italic''
Underline Format 
__underline__
 
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format 
<code>monospace</code>
 
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format 
-strikethrough-
 
[[strike]strikethrough text]
Superscript Format 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
<sup>text</sup>
Subscript Format 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
<sub>text</sub>
Images 
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
 
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
Aligning Text 
<left>, <center>, <right>
 
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
Text Indentation 
Indented block
 
: indented line
:: indented line
Bulleted Lists 
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
 
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
Numbered Lists 
# Number #1
# Number #2
 
# numbered list
## numbered list
Definition Lists 
<dl>
</dl>
 
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule 
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