| General Features | Wikidot | Sputnik | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
8.08.13
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N/A
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2.67
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| Last Release Date |
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
|
N/A
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2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
|
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
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2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
|
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
|
| Author |
Michal Frackowiak
|
Yuri Takhteyev
|
PBworks
|
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
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N/A
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Yes
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| License |
AGPLv3
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MIT/X
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N/A
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
Lua
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N/A
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Perl
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| Data Storage |
Database
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Database, Files, RCS
|
N/A
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Files, RCS
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| License Cost/ Fee |
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
|
0
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Determined by Solution Needs
|
0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
|
N/A
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
|
Small teams or private users
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Business Enterprises
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Anyone
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| Hosting Features | Wikidot | Sputnik | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| Storage Quota |
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
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N/A
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No limit
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N/A
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| Bandwidth Quota |
no limit
|
N/A
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No limit
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N/A
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| Other Limits |
max uploaded file size limit
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N/A
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None
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N/A
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| Topic Restrictions |
by Terms Of Service
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N/A
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None
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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 | Sputnik | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
|
N/A
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Any
|
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| Root Access |
No
|
No
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N/A
|
No
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| Webserver |
Apache, CGI, Xavante
|
N/A
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Any, or none
|
|
| Other Requirements |
gcc or Lua
|
N/A
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||
| Datastorage | Wikidot | Sputnik | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| Text Files |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
N/A
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Yes
|
| MySQL |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
N/A
|
No
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| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Oracle |
Unknown
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
N/A
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Unknown
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
| RCS |
Unknown
|
No
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Git
|
N/A
|
||
| Security/Anti-Spam | Wikidot | Sputnik | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Wikidot | Sputnik | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Code Repository |
N/A
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| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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| Common Features | Wikidot | Sputnik | 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 | Sputnik | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
2
English, Polish |
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian |
1
English |
1
English |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
No
|
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
None
|
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
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Links | Wikidot | Sputnik | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | Wikidot | Sputnik | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| HTML Tags |
None
|
Some
|
All
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
No
|
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
|
Lua, JavaScript
|
Javascript
|
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | Wikidot | Sputnik | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | Wikidot | Sputnik | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Output | Wikidot | Sputnik | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
No
|
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
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Wikidot | Sputnik | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
No
|
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 | Sputnik | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| Calendar |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Wikidot | Sputnik | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| Internal Link |
[[[page-name]]] or [[[page-name|anchor]]] |
[[Sputnik]] |
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link] |
[[internal]] |
| External Link |
http://www.wikimatrix.org or [http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix] |
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org) |
[http://www.externallink.com] |
[link text](http://example.org) |
| Headlines |
+++ headline level 3 |
# Sputnik |
! 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** |
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__ |
**bold** |
**bold** __bold__ |
| Italics Format |
//italic text// |
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_ |
''italics'' |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
| Underline Format |
__underlined text__ |
|
__underline__ |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
{{monospaced text}} |
|
<code>monospace</code> |
`inline monospace` indented block of monospaced text tab-indented block |
| Strikethrough Format |
--strikethrough text-- |
|
-strikethrough- |
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript^^ |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
,,subscript,, |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
| Images |
[[image src="..."]] |
|
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg |
  |
| Aligning Text |
= Centered line |
|
<left>, <center>, <right> |
|
| Text Indentation |
> First level of indentation >> Second level of indentation. |
> Sputnik |
Indented block |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* element 1 * element 2 |
* Sputnik |
* Bullet #1 * Bullet #2 ** SubBullet #1 |
* item 1 * item 2 * item 2.1 * item 2.2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# element 1 # element 1 |
1. Sputnik |
# 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 |
|
<dl> </dl> |
via HTML: <dl> <dt>term</dt> <dd>definition</dd> </dl> |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
- - - |
--- |
--- *** ___ ------------------ Any number > 3 - - - - - - - - - - spaces don't matter |
| remove Wikidot | remove Sputnik | remove PBwiki | remove ikiwiki |