ProWiki vs. PageWork vs. alphawiki vs. mobiki

General Features ProWiki PageWork alphawiki mobiki
Version
2.0.045
0.4.8
v.20160608
2016-06-26
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2010-07-20 (16 years ago)
2016-08-06 (9 years ago)
2016-06-26 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
2016-09-10 (9 years ago)
2016-06-26 (10 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
Pitt Murmann
marty alain
Martin D�ring
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPLv3
GNU-GPL
MIT
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP+Javascript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
none
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Medium-sized sites
private users, small teams
Text centric websites and mobile use
System Requirements ProWiki PageWork alphawiki mobiki
Operating System
Unix / Linux
Any
probably every OS
any
Root Access
No
No
Yes
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Any
Apache with PHP support
any
Other Requirements
none
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
PHP 5.4+
Datastorage ProWiki PageWork alphawiki mobiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Patch
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
No
Other
None
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki PageWork alphawiki mobiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Proprietary
No
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
No
Development/Support ProWiki PageWork alphawiki mobiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProWiki PageWork alphawiki mobiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features ProWiki PageWork alphawiki mobiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
2
German, English
1
English
0
Email notification
Yes
No
No
No
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
No
No
Structured Data
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Links ProWiki PageWork alphawiki mobiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
No
SisterWiki
Yes
Optional
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
No
Syntax Features ProWiki PageWork alphawiki mobiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
None
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
No
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Scripting
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Yes
Usability ProWiki PageWork alphawiki mobiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Optional
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Optional
No
Statistics ProWiki PageWork alphawiki mobiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
No
Output ProWiki PageWork alphawiki mobiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki PageWork alphawiki mobiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
No
No
Extras ProWiki PageWork alphawiki mobiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki PageWork alphawiki mobiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
[Internal Link]
External Link
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
http://mobiki.datenbrei.de
[Text|http://mobiki.datenbrei.de]
Headlines
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
!Headline
Bold Format
'''bold'''
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
{b I am bold}
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
{i I am italic}
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
This is __underlined__.
{u I am underline}
n/a
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
This is %%monospaced%%.
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
n/a
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
This is --not-- important.
{del I am line-through}
n/a
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
E = mc{sup 2}
n/a
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
n/a
Images
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
http://image.png
image:example.jpg
images:imagefolder
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
{center I am centered}
___
aligned text
___
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
- One
- Two
* One
* Two
Numbered Lists
# numbered list
## numbered list
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
0. One
0. Two
0. Three
Definition Lists
; term: definition
: term : definition
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
n/a
Horizontal Rule
----
---
{hr}
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