PageWork vs. JSPWiki vs. GWiki vs. Zim vs. DokuWiki

General Features PageWork JSPWiki GWiki Zim DokuWiki
Version
0.4.8
2.11.0
2.4.0
0.56
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2012-04-01 (12 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2012-07-16 (11 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Pitt Murmann
Apache Software Foundation
Roger Rene Kommer
Jaap Karssenberg
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
Apache License 2.0
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Java
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, Files
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
none
0
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Medium-sized sites
all
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Private users, small teams
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements PageWork JSPWiki GWiki Zim DokuWiki
Operating System
Any
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux, Windows, OSX
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
All Java Servlet Container, included
None
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 1.8+
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage PageWork JSPWiki GWiki Zim DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Patch
Optional
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
Optional
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Google Datastore
Text Files with index in SQLite
None
Security/Anti-Spam PageWork JSPWiki GWiki Zim DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Proprietary
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Internal and external with adapter
File permissions
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
Development/Support PageWork JSPWiki GWiki Zim DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
88 ⭐
4 ⭐
N/A
3582 ⭐
Common Features PageWork JSPWiki GWiki Zim DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 JSPWiki GWiki Zim DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
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
Email notification
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
No
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Links PageWork JSPWiki GWiki Zim DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Features PageWork JSPWiki GWiki Zim DokuWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
None
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
simple
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
None
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability PageWork JSPWiki GWiki Zim DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Statistics PageWork JSPWiki GWiki Zim DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Output PageWork JSPWiki GWiki Zim DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files PageWork JSPWiki GWiki Zim DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras PageWork JSPWiki GWiki Zim DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PageWork JSPWiki GWiki Zim DokuWiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.com]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
=== Heading ===
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
__bold__
*Bold Format*
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
''italics''
_Italic format_
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
This is __underlined__.
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
+Unterlined+
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
This is %%monospaced%%.
{{monospace}}
{{Monospace}}
``monospace``
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
This is --not-- important.
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
-StrikeThrough-
~~strike~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^Superscript^
^{sup}
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
~Subscript~
_{sub}
<sub>subscript</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'}]
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
{{./image.png}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
%%(text-align: right) text %%
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
not implemented
Plugin
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
indent with tabs
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
;term:definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
not implemented
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
not implemented
----
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