Wala Wiki vs. ProWiki vs. PageWork vs. mobiki

General Features Wala Wiki ProWiki PageWork mobiki
Version
1.1.7
2.0.045
0.4.8
2016-06-26
Last Release Date
2026-03-29 (4 months ago)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2010-07-20 (16 years ago)
2016-06-26 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
2016-06-26 (10 years ago)
Author
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
Helmut Leitner
Pitt Murmann
Martin D�ring
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain
GPL
GPLv3
MIT
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
none
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Medium-sized sites
Text centric websites and mobile use
System Requirements Wala Wiki ProWiki PageWork mobiki
Operating System
Linux, *BSD
Unix / Linux
Any
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any that supports basic CGI.
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Any
any
Other Requirements
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
none
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
PHP 5.4+
Datastorage Wala Wiki ProWiki PageWork mobiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Patch
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
diffs
Security/Anti-Spam Wala Wiki ProWiki PageWork mobiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
Proprietary
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Wala Wiki ProWiki PageWork mobiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wala Wiki ProWiki PageWork mobiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
No
Special Features Wala Wiki ProWiki PageWork mobiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Optional
No
Interface Languages
1
English
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
2
German, English
0
Email notification
No
Yes
No
No
Comments
Flat
No
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Links Wala Wiki ProWiki PageWork mobiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Optional
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
No
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features Wala Wiki ProWiki PageWork mobiki
HTML Tags
None
Some
All
None
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
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
No
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
No
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
No
Yes
Optional
No
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Yes
Yes
Usability Wala Wiki ProWiki PageWork mobiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
No
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics Wala Wiki ProWiki PageWork mobiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
No
Output Wala Wiki ProWiki PageWork mobiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
No
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
HTML Export
No
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wala Wiki ProWiki PageWork mobiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Keywords
No
Extras Wala Wiki ProWiki PageWork mobiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wala Wiki ProWiki PageWork mobiki
Internal Link
LinkDump, [link dump]
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
[Internal Link]
External Link
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
http://mobiki.datenbrei.de
[Text|http://mobiki.datenbrei.de]
Headlines
= headline =
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
!Headline
Bold Format
'''bolded'''
'''bold'''
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italicized''
''italic''
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
This is __underlined__.
n/a
Monospace Format
monospaced.
<tt>monospace</tt>
This is %%monospaced%%.
n/a
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
This is --not-- important.
n/a
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
n/a
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
n/a
Images
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
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}}
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}}
___
aligned text
___
Text Indentation
:Block-quoted text.
: indented line
:: indented line
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
- One
- Two
* One
* Two
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
# Three
# numbered list
## numbered list
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
0. One
0. Two
0. Three
Definition Lists
; term: definition
: term : definition
n/a
Horizontal Rule
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