PageWork vs. JSPWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Zim

General Features PageWork JSPWiki DokuWiki Zim
Version
0.4.8
2.11.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.56
Last Release Date
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2012-04-01 (12 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2012-07-16 (11 years ago)
Author
Pitt Murmann
Apache Software Foundation
Andreas Gohr
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
Apache License 2.0
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
none
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Medium-sized sites
all
personal, small to medium companies
Private users, small teams
System Requirements PageWork JSPWiki DokuWiki Zim
Operating System
Any
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
None
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage PageWork JSPWiki DokuWiki Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Optional
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
No
No
Oracle
No
Optional
No
No
SQLite
Patch
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
Optional
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
None
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam PageWork JSPWiki DokuWiki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Proprietary
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
File permissions
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Development/Support PageWork JSPWiki DokuWiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
88 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PageWork JSPWiki DokuWiki Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 JSPWiki DokuWiki Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
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
Email notification
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Links PageWork JSPWiki DokuWiki Zim
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features PageWork JSPWiki DokuWiki Zim
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
none
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional, PHP
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Usability PageWork JSPWiki DokuWiki Zim
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Yes
No
Statistics PageWork JSPWiki DokuWiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
No
Output PageWork JSPWiki DokuWiki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PageWork JSPWiki DokuWiki Zim
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras PageWork JSPWiki DokuWiki Zim
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PageWork JSPWiki DokuWiki Zim
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
__bold__
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
''italics''
//italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
This is __underlined__.
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
This is %%monospaced%%.
{{monospace}}
''monospace''
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
This is --not-- important.
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<del>strikethrough</del>
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
^{sup}
Subscript Format
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
_{sub}
Images
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Plugin
not implemented
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
N/A
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
: term : definition
;term:definition
Plugin
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
not implemented
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