LionWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PageWork vs. Sputnik vs. TWiki

General Features LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork Sputnik TWiki
Version
3.2.4
phpwiki-1.3.14
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.4.8
8.08.13
TWiki-6.1.0
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)
2008-08-12 (15 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-01 (13 years ago)
2009-04-03 (14 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
2009-02-02 (15 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Adam Živnéř
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Andreas Gohr
Pitt Murmann
Yuri Takhteyev
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
GPL
GPL 2
GPLv3
MIT/X
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Lua
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
none
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
advanced users, minimalists
Any
personal, small to medium companies
Medium-sized sites
Small teams or private users
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork Sputnik TWiki
Operating System
All PHP supported
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
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
Apache, CGI, Xavante
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
gcc or Lua
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork Sputnik TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
None
Git
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork Sputnik TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Proprietary
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Development/Support LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork Sputnik TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork Sputnik TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork Sputnik TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
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
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
No
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
No
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork Sputnik TWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Features LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork Sputnik TWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
All
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript (plugin)
plugins, templates, PHP
Optional, PHP
Lua, JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Usability LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork Sputnik TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Patch
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Statistics LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork Sputnik TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Output LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork Sputnik TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork Sputnik TWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork Sputnik TWiki
Calendar
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples LionWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork Sputnik TWiki
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]]
[[Sputnik]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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/
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org)
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
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
# Sputnik
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
'''bold''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__
*bold*
Italics Format
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_
_italic_
Underline Format
'__underline__'
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
This is __underlined__.
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


''monospace''
This is %%monospaced%%.
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
'--strikethrough--'
<strike>striked through</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
This is --not-- important.
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
<sub>subscript</sub>
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}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
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}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
N/A
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
> Sputnik
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
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
* Sputnik
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
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
1. Sputnik
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
Plugin
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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