LionWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PageWork

General Features LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork
Version
3.2.4
phpwiki-1.3.14
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.4.8
Last Release Date
2010-09-19 (13 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-01 (13 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
Author
Adam Živnéř
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Andreas Gohr
Pitt Murmann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
GPL
GPL 2
GPLv3
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
advanced users, minimalists
Any
personal, small to medium companies
Medium-sized sites
System Requirements LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork
Operating System
All PHP supported
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Patch
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
Yes
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
None
Security/Anti-Spam LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Proprietary
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Yes
Development/Support LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
No
Yes
Optional
No
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Links LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript (plugin)
plugins, templates, PHP
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork
Calendar
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork
Internal Link
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
External Link
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
Headlines
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
Bold Format
'''bold''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
Italics Format
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
Underline Format
'__underline__'
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


''monospace''
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
'--strikethrough--'
<strike>striked through</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
[path_to_img.jpg]
[ 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
{{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}}
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Plugin
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
N/A
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
* list
or
- list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
Numbered Lists
# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
# list
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
Plugin
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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