Wiki CSharp .NET vs. PageWork vs. PmWiki

General Features Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork PmWiki
Version
0.4.2
0.4.8
2.7.3
Last Release Date
2009-12-31 (16 years ago)
2010-07-20 (16 years ago)
2026-07-26 (4 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-07 (16 years ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
2026-07-26 (4 days ago)
Author
Pier-Luc Duchaine
Pitt Murmann
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL V3
GPLv3
GPL2+
Programming Language
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
none
0
Development status
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, small and big team
Medium-sized sites
All
System Requirements Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork PmWiki
Operating System
Windows
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
none
Datastorage Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Patch
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork PmWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Proprietary
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Optional
Development/Support Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork PmWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork PmWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
2
German, English
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
No
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork PmWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Optional
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork PmWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Yes
Statistics Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork PmWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
No
Plugin
Output Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
XML export
Unknown
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork PmWiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork PmWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork PmWiki
Internal Link
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*Bold*
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
'''bold'''
Italics Format
=Italic=
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
''italic''
Underline Format
_Underline_
This is __underlined__.
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
[|Monospace formate|]
This is %%monospaced%%.
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
-Strike-
This is --not-- important.
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
'_subscript_'
Images
[$Image file$]
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
-list1
--list2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
#list1
##list2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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