PageWork vs. GWiki vs. Zim vs. PhpWiki

General Features PageWork GWiki Zim PhpWiki
Version
0.4.8
2.4.0
0.56
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2012-04-01 (12 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2012-07-16 (11 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
Pitt Murmann
Roger Rene Kommer
Jaap Karssenberg
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
none
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Medium-sized sites
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Private users, small teams
Any
System Requirements PageWork GWiki Zim PhpWiki
Operating System
Any
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux, Windows, OSX
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
All Java Servlet Container, included
None
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Java 1.8+
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
various opt. helpers
Datastorage PageWork GWiki Zim PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
Patch
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Other
Google Datastore
Text Files with index in SQLite
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam PageWork GWiki Zim PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Proprietary
Internal and external with adapter
File permissions
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
No
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
No
Development/Support PageWork GWiki Zim PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features PageWork GWiki Zim PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PageWork GWiki Zim PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Interface Languages
2
German, English
2
German, English
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
No
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Links PageWork GWiki Zim PhpWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features PageWork GWiki Zim PhpWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
None
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
None
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability PageWork GWiki Zim PhpWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Statistics PageWork GWiki Zim PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
No
No
Plugin
Output PageWork GWiki Zim PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Optional
No
No
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PageWork GWiki Zim PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
No
No
Extras PageWork GWiki Zim PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PageWork GWiki Zim PhpWiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
[http://example.com]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
=== Heading ===
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
*Bold Format*
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
_Italic format_
//italic//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
This is __underlined__.
+Unterlined+
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
This is %%monospaced%%.
{{Monospace}}
``monospace``
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
This is --not-- important.
-StrikeThrough-
~~strike~~
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
^Superscript^
^{sup}
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
~Subscript~
_{sub}
<sub>below</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!
{{./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
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}
not implemented
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
indent with tabs
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
# list
Definition Lists
: term : definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
not implemented
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
---
----
not implemented
----
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