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

General Features PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
Version
0.4.8
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
2.4.0
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (29 days ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (28 days ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Pitt Murmann
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Roger Rene Kommer
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
GPL 2
GPL2+
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files
Database, Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
none
0
0
Free
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Medium-sized sites
personal, small to medium companies
All
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
Operating System
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
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.
All Java Servlet Container, included
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
none
Java 1.8+
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Patch
No
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Other
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Google Datastore
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
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.
Internal and external with adapter
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Development/Support PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
4 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
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
2
German, English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Output PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
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]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.com]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
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
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
**bold**
'''bold'''
*Bold Format*
*bold*
Italics Format
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
//italics//
''italic''
_Italic format_
_italic_
Underline Format
This is __underlined__.
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
+Unterlined+
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
This is %%monospaced%%.
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
{{Monospace}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
This is --not-- important.
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
-StrikeThrough-
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^Superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
~Subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
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
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.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
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
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 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
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 2
## Sub Item
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Plugin
: term : definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
----
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