PmWiki vs. PageWork vs. LionWiki

General Features PmWiki PageWork LionWiki
Version
2.7.4
0.4.8
3.2.4
Last Release Date
2026-07-31 (2 days ago)
2010-07-20 (16 years ago)
2010-09-20 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-07-31 (2 days ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
2010-10-01 (15 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Pitt Murmann
Adam Živnéř
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPLv3
GPL v2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
none
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Medium-sized sites
advanced users, minimalists
System Requirements PmWiki PageWork LionWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
All PHP supported
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Any
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
Other Requirements
none
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage PmWiki PageWork LionWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Patch
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki PageWork LionWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Proprietary
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
Development/Support PmWiki PageWork LionWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PmWiki PageWork LionWiki
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 PmWiki PageWork LionWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Optional
No
Interface Languages
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
German, English
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
No
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Links PmWiki PageWork LionWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
Optional
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki PageWork LionWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Optional
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript (plugin)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability PmWiki PageWork LionWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics PmWiki PageWork LionWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Output PmWiki PageWork LionWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
No
HTML Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
XML export
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki PageWork LionWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Extras PmWiki PageWork LionWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki PageWork LionWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
Bold Format
'''bold'''
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
'''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
''italics''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
This is __underlined__.
'__underline__'
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
This is --not-- important.
'--strikethrough--'
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
[path_to_img.jpg]
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
Definition Lists
: term : definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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