| General Features | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | PageWork |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.0.1
|
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
|
0.4.8
|
| Last Release Date |
2026-07-27 (today)
|
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
|
2010-07-20 (16 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
|
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
|
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
|
| Author |
Clay Alberty
|
Andreas Gohr
|
Pitt Murmann
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
BSD
|
GPL 2
|
GPLv3
|
| Programming Language |
C#
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files
|
Database, Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free
|
0
|
none
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
personal, small to medium companies
|
Medium-sized sites
|
|
| System Requirements | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | PageWork |
| Operating System |
Windows
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Any
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
IIS 5+
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Any
|
| Other Requirements |
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
|
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
|
|
| Datastorage | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | PageWork |
| Text Files |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Unknown
|
No
|
Patch
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RCS |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
|
None
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | PageWork |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
.NET Membership platform
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
Proprietary
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Development/Support | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | PageWork |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
4692 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | PageWork |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | PageWork |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
2
German, English |
| Email notification |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Comments |
No
|
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Links | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | PageWork |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Image Links |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | PageWork |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Optional
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
none
|
simple
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
||
| Content Includes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | PageWork |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | PageWork |
| Recent Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Output | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | PageWork |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | PageWork |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Keywords
|
|
| Extras | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | PageWork |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | PageWork |
| Internal Link |
[pagename] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[link]] [[link|alternate text]] |
| External Link |
{title|url} |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
http://www.wikimatrix.org/ |
| Headlines |
!, !!, !!! |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
= L1 = == L2 == === L3 === ==== L4 ==== ===== L5 ===== = L1 == L2 === L3 ==== L4 ===== L5 |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
**bold** |
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong). This is **bold**, too. |
| Italics Format |
''italics'' |
//italics// |
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized). This is in //italics//, too. |
| Underline Format |
__under__ |
__underlined__ |
This is __underlined__. |
| Monospace Format |
|
''monospace'' |
This is %%monospaced%%. |
| Strikethrough Format |
<<strike>> (using custom tags) |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
This is --not-- important. |
| Superscript Format |
<<super>> (using custom tags) |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^ |
| Subscript Format |
<<sub>> (using custom tags) |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^} |
| Images |
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}} |
| Aligning Text |
available through custom tags |
Plugin |
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}} |
| Text Indentation |
multiple spaces -> |
N/A |
> L1 quote >> L2 quote |
| Bulleted Lists |
+ ++ +++ ++++ |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* one * two ** two alpha ** two beta * three |
| Numbered Lists |
# ## ### #### |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
# one # two ## two alpha ## two beta # three |
| Definition Lists |
|
Plugin |
: term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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