ProWiki vs. ProntoWiki

General Features ProWiki ProntoWiki
Version
2.0.045
1.0.1
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (20 years ago)
2026-10-17 (today)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2006-08-23 (20 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
Clay Alberty
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Perl
C#
Data Storage
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
System Requirements ProWiki ProntoWiki
Operating System
Unix / Linux
Windows
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
IIS 5+
Other Requirements
none
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Datastorage ProWiki ProntoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Unknown
MySQL
No
Unknown
PostgreSQL
No
Unknown
Oracle
No
Unknown
SQLite
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
RCS
Yes
Unknown
Other
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki ProntoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
.NET Membership platform
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support ProWiki ProntoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProWiki ProntoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Unknown
Plugin System
No
No
Special Features ProWiki ProntoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
1
English
Email notification
Yes
No
Comments
No
No
Categories
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Links ProWiki ProntoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Optional
Windows Shares
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features ProWiki ProntoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Math formulas
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
Textile Support
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Footnotes
Yes
Optional
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Scripting
Content Includes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Usability ProWiki ProntoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Access Keys
No
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Statistics ProWiki ProntoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Unknown
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Output ProWiki ProntoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
No
Raw Export
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki ProntoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Video
Yes
Unknown
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Media Search
No
Extras ProWiki ProntoWiki
Calendar
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki ProntoWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
[pagename]
External Link
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
{title|url}
Headlines
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
!, !!, !!!
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__under__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
<<super>> (using custom tags)
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
Images
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
available through custom tags
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
+
++
+++
++++
Numbered Lists
# numbered list
## numbered list
#
##
###
####
Definition Lists
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
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