PageWork vs. GWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. Foswiki

General Features PageWork GWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Version
0.4.8
2.4.0
1.5.1
2.1.8
Last Release Date
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
Author
Pitt Murmann
Roger Rene Kommer
PukiWiki Development Team
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
none
Free
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Medium-sized sites
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
One theme, one PukiWiki
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements PageWork GWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Operating System
Any
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
OS independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
All Java Servlet Container, included
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Java 1.8+
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage PageWork GWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Patch
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Other
Google Datastore
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam PageWork GWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Proprietary
Internal and external with adapter
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
Patch
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support PageWork GWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4 ⭐
N/A
97 ⭐
Common Features PageWork GWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PageWork GWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Optional
No
No
Interface Languages
2
German, English
2
German, English
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Links PageWork GWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
CamelCase
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Features PageWork GWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Usability PageWork GWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Statistics PageWork GWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
No
Yes
Output PageWork GWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files PageWork GWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
No
Contents
Extras PageWork GWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PageWork GWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
[http://example.com]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
---+ 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 Format*
''bold''
*bold*
Italics Format
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
_Italic format_
'''italic'''
_italic_
Underline Format
This is __underlined__.
+Unterlined+
%%%underlined%%%
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
This is %%monospaced%%.
{{Monospace}}
N/A
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
This is --not-- important.
-StrikeThrough-
%%strikethrough%%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
^Superscript^
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
~Subscript~
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
:term|definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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