PageWork vs. GWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Foswiki vs. PmWiki

General Features PageWork GWiki PukiWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PmWiki
Version
0.4.8
2.4.0
1.5.1
2.11.0
2.1.8
2.3.33
Last Release Date
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
2024-04-20 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2024-04-21 (5 days ago)
Author
Pitt Murmann
Roger Rene Kommer
PukiWiki Development Team
Apache Software Foundation
Foswiki Community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
Java
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, Files
Files
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
none
Free
0
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Medium-sized sites
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
One theme, one PukiWiki
all
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
All
System Requirements PageWork GWiki PukiWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PmWiki
Operating System
Any
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
OS independent
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
All Java Servlet Container, included
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
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.
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Datastorage PageWork GWiki PukiWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Optional
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
SQLite
Patch
No
No
Optional
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Other
Google Datastore
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
caching of content into database using plugins
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam PageWork GWiki PukiWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Proprietary
Internal and external with adapter
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
No
No
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support PageWork GWiki PukiWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
97 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PageWork GWiki PukiWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PageWork GWiki PukiWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
2
German, English
2
German, English
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
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
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links PageWork GWiki PukiWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PageWork GWiki PukiWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Plugin
Optional
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Usability PageWork GWiki PukiWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics PageWork GWiki PukiWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Output PageWork GWiki PukiWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files PageWork GWiki PukiWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
No
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras PageWork GWiki PukiWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples PageWork GWiki PukiWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
[http://example.com]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
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 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
*Bold Format*
''bold''
__bold__
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
_Italic format_
'''italic'''
''italics''
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
This is __underlined__.
+Unterlined+
%%%underlined%%%
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
This is %%monospaced%%.
{{Monospace}}
N/A
{{monospace}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
This is --not-- important.
-StrikeThrough-
%%strikethrough%%
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
^Superscript^
N/A
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
~Subscript~
N/A
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<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}}
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
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
%%(text-align: right) text %%
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
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
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
:term|definition
;term:definition
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
--------------------
----
---
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