PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. PageWork vs. Hatta

General Features PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
Version
2.3.33
TWiki-6.1.0
0.4.8
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2024-04-20 (23 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
2015-08-28 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-21 (22 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
2015-08-29 (8 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Pitt Murmann
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
GPLv3
GPL v2
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
none
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Medium-sized sites
System Requirements PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Mercurial
Datastorage PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
Patch
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Proprietary
n/a
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Development/Support PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
No
Special Features PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
German, English
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
Optional
Yes
No
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Links PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Usability PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Output PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
//italic//
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
This is __underlined__.
n/a
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
This is %%monospaced%%.
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
This is --not-- important.
n/a
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
n/a
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
n/a
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
n/a
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* list
** sublist
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
n/a
Definition Lists
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
n/a
Horizontal Rule
----
---
---
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