ProWiki vs. PBwiki

General Features ProWiki PBwiki
Version
2.0.045
N/A
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
PBworks
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
License
GPL
N/A
Programming Language
Perl
N/A
Data Storage
Files
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
Determined by Solution Needs
Development status
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Business Enterprises
Hosting Features ProWiki PBwiki
Storage Quota
N/A
No limit
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
No limit
Other Limits
N/A
None
Topic Restrictions
N/A
None
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
System Requirements ProWiki PBwiki
Operating System
Unix / Linux
N/A
Root Access
No
N/A
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
N/A
Other Requirements
none
N/A
Datastorage ProWiki PBwiki
Text Files
Yes
N/A
MySQL
No
N/A
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
Oracle
No
N/A
SQLite
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
RCS
Yes
N/A
Other
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki PBwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support ProWiki PBwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProWiki PBwiki
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
No
Yes
Special Features ProWiki PBwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Links ProWiki PBwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features ProWiki PBwiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
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
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Scripting
Javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Usability ProWiki PBwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Statistics ProWiki PBwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Output ProWiki PBwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki PBwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Yes
Media Search
No
Contents
Extras ProWiki PBwiki
Calendar
Yes
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki PBwiki
Internal Link 
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
 
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
External Link 
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
 
[http://www.externallink.com]
Headlines 
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
 
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
Bold Format 
'''bold'''
 
**bold**
Italics Format 
''italic''
 
''italics''
Underline Format 
<u>underlined</u>
 
__underline__
Monospace Format 
<tt>monospace</tt>
 
<code>monospace</code>
Strikethrough Format 
[[strike]strikethrough text]
 
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format 
<sup>text</sup>
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format 
<sub>text</sub>
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images 
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]

[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
Aligning Text 
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
 
<left>, <center>, <right>
Text Indentation 
: indented line
:: indented line
 
Indented block
Bulleted Lists 
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
 
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
Numbered Lists 
# numbered list
## numbered list
 
# Number #1
# Number #2
Definition Lists 
; term: definition
 
<dl>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule 
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