ProntoWiki vs. ProWiki

General Features ProntoWiki ProWiki
Version
1.0.1
2.0.045
Last Release Date
1.0.1
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
Author
Clay Alberty
Helmut Leitner
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
C#
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
System Requirements ProntoWiki ProWiki
Operating System
Windows
Unix / Linux
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
IIS 5+
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Other Requirements
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
none
Datastorage ProntoWiki ProWiki
Text Files
Unknown
Yes
MySQL
Unknown
No
PostgreSQL
Unknown
No
Oracle
Unknown
No
SQLite
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
RCS
Unknown
Yes
Other
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
Security/Anti-Spam ProntoWiki ProWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
.NET Membership platform
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support ProntoWiki ProWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProntoWiki ProWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Special Features ProntoWiki ProWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
1
English
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
Email notification
No
Yes
Comments
No
No
Categories
Optional
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Links ProntoWiki ProWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features ProntoWiki ProWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Math formulas
No
Yes
Tables
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Footnotes
Optional
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Scripting
Content Includes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Usability ProntoWiki ProWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Access Keys
No
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Statistics ProntoWiki ProWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Output ProntoWiki ProWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
No
Raw Export
No
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProntoWiki ProWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
Media Search
No
Extras ProntoWiki ProWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProntoWiki ProWiki
Internal Link
[pagename]
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
External Link
{title|url}
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
Headlines
!, !!, !!!
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
Underline Format
__under__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
[[strike]strikethrough text]
Superscript Format
<<super>> (using custom tags)
<sup>text</sup>
Subscript Format
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
<sub>text</sub>
Images
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
Aligning Text
available through custom tags
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
Text Indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
: indented line
:: indented line
Bulleted Lists
+
++
+++
++++
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
Numbered Lists
#
##
###
####
# numbered list
## numbered list
Definition Lists
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
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