DokuWiki vs. PageWork vs. PmWiki

General Features DokuWiki PageWork PmWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.4.8
2.3.34
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
2024-05-26 (23 days ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
2024-05-27 (22 days ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Pitt Murmann
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPLv3
GPL2+
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
none
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Medium-sized sites
All
System Requirements DokuWiki PageWork PmWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
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 DokuWiki 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
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki PageWork PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
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
Plugin
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
Optional
Development/Support DokuWiki PageWork PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki PageWork PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki PageWork PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Optional
No
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links DokuWiki PageWork PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Optional
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki PageWork PmWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Optional
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki PageWork PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki PageWork PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output DokuWiki PageWork PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
XML export
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files DokuWiki PageWork PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki PageWork PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki PageWork PmWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[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://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
This is __underlined__.
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
''monospace''
This is %%monospaced%%.
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
This is --not-- important.
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
'_subscript_'
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{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
Plugin
{{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
N/A
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* 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
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# 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
Plugin
: term : definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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