PodWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PageWork

General Features PodWiki DokuWiki PageWork
Version
0.9.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.4.8
Last Release Date
2007-02-12 (17 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-02-13 (17 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
Author
Thomas Linden
Andreas Gohr
Pitt Murmann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPLv3
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
GPL / none
0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
average to advanced users
personal, small to medium companies
Medium-sized sites
System Requirements PodWiki DokuWiki PageWork
Operating System
Unix
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
apache
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite optional
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage PodWiki DokuWiki PageWork
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Patch
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
RCS
Yes
No
No
Other
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
None
Security/Anti-Spam PodWiki DokuWiki PageWork
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
builtin
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Proprietary
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
Development/Support PodWiki DokuWiki PageWork
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#49
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PodWiki DokuWiki PageWork
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features PodWiki DokuWiki PageWork
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
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
2
German, English
Email notification
No
Optional
No
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Links PodWiki DokuWiki PageWork
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PodWiki DokuWiki PageWork
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Optional
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
Perl
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability PodWiki DokuWiki PageWork
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics PodWiki DokuWiki PageWork
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output PodWiki DokuWiki PageWork
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
No
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PodWiki DokuWiki PageWork
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras PodWiki DokuWiki PageWork
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PodWiki DokuWiki PageWork
Internal Link
POD:
L<Sandbox>
L<Link Description|Sandbox>

Creole:
[[Sandbox]]
[[Sandbox|Link Description]]

BBcode:
[url]Sandbox[/url]
[url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
External Link
L<http://www.daemon.de>
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
Headlines
=head1 The Weather
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
Bold Format
B<bold>
**bold**
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
Italics Format
I<italics>
//italics//
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
Underline Format
via html only
__underlined__
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
put a space in front of monospaced text
''monospace''
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
via html only
<del>strikethrough</del>
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
via html only
<sup>superscript</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
via html only
<sub>subscript</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
G<logo.png>
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
Aligning Text
via stylesheet only
Plugin
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
via stylesheet only
N/A
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
=over

=item* listitem

=back
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
Numbered Lists
=over

=item 1. listitem

=back
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
Definition Lists
via html only
Plugin
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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