LynxWiki vs. Instiki vs. GWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PageWork

General Features LynxWiki Instiki GWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Version
1.3.0.0
0.30.0
2.4.0
1.32.2
0.4.8
Last Release Date
2013-08-01 (10 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-29 (10 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
Author
J.W. Davidson
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Roger Rene Kommer
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Pitt Murmann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
Ruby's
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL
GPLv3
Programming Language
C#
Ruby on Rails
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Database, Files
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
Free
0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small organization to enterprise
general, education
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
End Users/Desktop, Education
Medium-sized sites
System Requirements LynxWiki Instiki GWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Operating System
Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS7 or IIS8
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
All Java Servlet Container, included
Any with PHP support
Any
Other Requirements
IronPython
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Java 1.8+
none
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage LynxWiki Instiki GWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Google Datastore
No
Security/Anti-Spam LynxWiki Instiki GWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
MS Membership and Roles
Internal and external with adapter
Yes
Proprietary
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Development/Support LynxWiki Instiki GWiki MediaWiki PageWork
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
478 ⭐
4 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features LynxWiki Instiki GWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features LynxWiki Instiki GWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
2
German, English
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
2
German, English
Email notification
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links LynxWiki Instiki GWiki MediaWiki PageWork
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features LynxWiki Instiki GWiki MediaWiki PageWork
HTML Tags
None
All
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
IronPython
None
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability LynxWiki Instiki GWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Statistics LynxWiki Instiki GWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Optional
No
Output LynxWiki Instiki GWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Themes & Skins
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files LynxWiki Instiki GWiki MediaWiki PageWork
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
Keywords
Keywords
Extras LynxWiki Instiki GWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Calendar
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples LynxWiki Instiki GWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Internal Link
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
[another site](http://example.com)
[http://example.com]
[http://example.org The title]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
Headlines
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
*Bold Format*
'''bold'''
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
Italics Format
_italics_
_italic_, *italic*
_Italic format_
''italic''
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
Underline Format
+underlined+
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
+Unterlined+
<u>underlined</u>
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
`monospace`
{{Monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
-StrikeThrough-
<s>strikethrough</s>
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
superscript^234^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
water: H~2~O
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
Aligning Text
N/A
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
<center>Centered</center>
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
N/A
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
: indented line
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
* first bullet (8 spaces)
* first sub item bullet
* second item
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
Numbered Lists
1. first numbered item
1. second item
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
Definition Lists
N/A
term
: definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
; term : definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
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