PageWork vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. TWiki vs. GWiki

General Features PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki TWiki GWiki
Version
0.4.8
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
TWiki-6.1.0
2.4.0
Last Release Date
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (6 days ago)
2005-06-15 (18 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (5 days ago)
2010-04-04 (14 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
Author
Pitt Murmann
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Roger Rene Kommer
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
GPL 2
GPL2+
Public Domain (!)
GPL
Apache License, Version 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
none
0
0
0
N/A
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Medium-sized sites
personal, small to medium companies
All
small + medium sites, development teams
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
System Requirements PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki TWiki GWiki
Operating System
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
All Java Servlet Container, included
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
none
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 1.8+
Datastorage PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki TWiki GWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Patch
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Other
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
no
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Google Datastore
Security/Anti-Spam PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki TWiki GWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Proprietary
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal and external with adapter
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
Optional
Patch
Plugin
No
Development/Support PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki TWiki GWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
4 ⭐
Common Features PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki TWiki GWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki TWiki GWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Optional
Patch
No
Optional
Interface Languages
2
German, English
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
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
German, English
Email notification
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Links PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki TWiki GWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki TWiki GWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki TWiki GWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Statistics PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki TWiki GWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Output PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki TWiki GWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki TWiki GWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Contents
Contents
Extras PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki TWiki GWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki TWiki GWiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.com]
Headlines
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
Bold Format
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold text__
**bold text**
*bold*
*Bold Format*
Italics Format
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
//italics//
''italic''
''ialic text''
_italic_
_Italic format_
Underline Format
This is __underlined__.
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
optional or via css
<u>underline</u>
+Unterlined+
Monospace Format
This is %%monospaced%%.
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
==monospaced text==
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{Monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
This is --not-- important.
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
optional or via css
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
-StrikeThrough-
Superscript Format
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript text^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript^
Subscript Format
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
optional or via css
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript~
Images
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[link to the image.jpg]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
Aligning Text
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
optional or via css
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
Numbered Lists
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Plugin
: term : definition
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
$ Term: Definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Horizontal Rule
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