Wikidot vs. PhpWiki vs. PBwiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features Wikidot PhpWiki PBwiki ikiwiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
N/A
2.67
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
N/A
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
Michal Frackowiak
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
PBworks
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
AGPLv3
GPL
N/A
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
N/A
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, RCS
N/A
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
0
Determined by Solution Needs
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Any
Business Enterprises
Anyone
Hosting Features Wikidot PhpWiki PBwiki ikiwiki
Storage Quota
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
N/A
No limit
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
no limit
N/A
No limit
N/A
Other Limits
max uploaded file size limit
N/A
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
by Terms Of Service
N/A
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
System Requirements Wikidot PhpWiki PBwiki ikiwiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
N/A
Any
Root Access
No
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
N/A
Any, or none
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
N/A
Datastorage Wikidot PhpWiki PBwiki ikiwiki
Text Files
Unknown
Yes
N/A
Yes
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
N/A
No
Oracle
Unknown
Yes
N/A
No
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
Yes
N/A
No
RCS
Unknown
Yes
N/A
Yes
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam Wikidot PhpWiki PBwiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
N/A
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
No
Development/Support Wikidot PhpWiki PBwiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
N/A
No
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wikidot PhpWiki PBwiki ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wikidot PhpWiki PBwiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
English, Polish
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
1
English
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Links Wikidot PhpWiki PBwiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features Wikidot PhpWiki PBwiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
None
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
plugins, templates, PHP
Javascript
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wikidot PhpWiki PBwiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Patch
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics Wikidot PhpWiki PBwiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Output Wikidot PhpWiki PBwiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wikidot PhpWiki PBwiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Wikidot PhpWiki PBwiki ikiwiki
Calendar
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wikidot PhpWiki PBwiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[[internal]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://www.externallink.com]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
+++ headline level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
**bold text**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
//italic text//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italics''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
__underlined text__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospaced text}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


<code>monospace</code>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough text--
<strike>striked through</strike>
-strikethrough-
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
[[image src="..."]]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
= Centered line
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

<left>, <center>, <right>
Text Indentation
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Indented block
Bulleted Lists
* element 1
* element 2
* list
or
- list
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
# element 1
# element 1
# list
# Number #1
# Number #2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
: item : description
Term:<def>
def
<dl>
</dl>
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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