ProWiki vs. WikiPack

General Features ProWiki WikiPack
Version
2.0.045
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Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (20 years ago)
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Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2012-05-23 (14 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
Mark Beattie
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
License
GPL
N/A
Programming Language
Perl
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Data Storage
Files
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free while in open beta
Development status
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Individual Markdown geeks & writers
Hosting Features ProWiki WikiPack
Storage Quota
N/A
None (determined by Dropbox plan)
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
None
Other Limits
N/A
None while in open beta
Topic Restrictions
N/A
None
Corporate Branding
N/A
No
Own Domain
N/A
No
Ads allowed
N/A
No
System Requirements ProWiki WikiPack
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 WikiPack
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 WikiPack
Page Permissions
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
N/A
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support ProWiki WikiPack
# 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 WikiPack
Preview
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Special Features ProWiki WikiPack
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
1
English
Email notification
Yes
No
Comments
No
No
Categories
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
No
No
Links ProWiki WikiPack
CamelCase
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
No
Windows Shares
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Syntax Features ProWiki WikiPack
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Math formulas
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Footnotes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
No
Scripting
None
Content Includes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Usability ProWiki WikiPack
Section Editing
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Toolbar
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Access Keys
No
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Statistics ProWiki WikiPack
Recent Changes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Output ProWiki WikiPack
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Optional
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki WikiPack
File Attachments
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Extras ProWiki WikiPack
Calendar
Yes
No
Image Galleries
No
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki WikiPack
Internal Link 
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
 
[[LinkToSomePage|link to some page]]
External Link 
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
 
[Google](http://google.com)
Headlines 
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
 
# Heading 1
## Heading 2
### Heading etc
Bold Format 
'''bold'''
 
**bold**
Italics Format 
''italic''
 
_italic_
Underline Format 
<u>underlined</u>
 
not supported
Monospace Format 
<tt>monospace</tt>
 
indent 4 spaces (or 2 tabs)
for code blocks
Strikethrough Format 
[[strike]strikethrough text]
 
not supported
Superscript Format 
<sup>text</sup>
 
not supported
Subscript Format 
<sub>text</sub>
 
not supported
Images 
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]

![External image](http://somesite.com/imageurl.jpg)
Aligning Text 
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
 
not supported
Text Indentation 
: indented line
:: indented line
 
> Prefix block quotes with an angled bracket
>> Nest brackets to control indentation
Bulleted Lists 
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
 
* list item one
* list item two
* sub item one
Numbered Lists 
# numbered list
## numbered list
 
1. item one
2. item two
1. Sub item
Definition Lists 
; term: definition
 
not supported
Horizontal Rule 
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