PageWork vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. GWiki

General Features PageWork DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki
Version
0.4.8
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.4.0
Last Release Date
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (22 days ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (22 days ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
Author
Pitt Murmann
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Roger Rene Kommer
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
Apache License, Version 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
none
0
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Medium-sized sites
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Any
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
System Requirements PageWork DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki
Operating System
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
All Java Servlet Container, included
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
mod_rewrite (optional)
various opt. helpers
Java 1.8+
Datastorage PageWork DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
Patch
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
None
MariaDB
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Google Datastore
Security/Anti-Spam PageWork DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Proprietary
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal and external with adapter
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support PageWork DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
32 ⭐
N/A
4 ⭐
Common Features PageWork DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki
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 WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
2
German, English
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Links PageWork DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Optional
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PageWork DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
plugins, templates, PHP
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability PageWork DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics PageWork DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output PageWork DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
No
Media and Files PageWork DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
No
Contents
Extras PageWork DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Patch
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PageWork DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki GWiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[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 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
Bold Format
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
**bold**
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*Bold Format*
Italics Format
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
//italics//
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_Italic format_
Underline Format
This is __underlined__.
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
+Unterlined+
Monospace Format
This is %%monospaced%%.
''monospace''
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{Monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
This is --not-- important.
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
<strike>striked through</strike>
-StrikeThrough-
Superscript Format
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>above</sup>
^Superscript^
Subscript Format
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>below</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}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[ 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
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
Aligning Text
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
N/A
one
two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* list
or
- list
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
Numbered Lists
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# list
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Plugin
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Term:<def>
def
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Horizontal Rule
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