PodWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. Sputnik vs. PageWork

General Features PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork
Version
0.9.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
8.08.13
0.4.8
Last Release Date
2007-02-12 (17 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2008-08-12 (15 years ago)
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-02-13 (17 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2009-02-02 (15 years ago)
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
Author
Thomas Linden
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Yuri Takhteyev
Pitt Murmann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
MIT/X
GPLv3
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Lua
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
GPL / none
0
N/A
0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
average to advanced users
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Small teams or private users
Medium-sized sites
System Requirements PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork
Operating System
Unix
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
apache
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, CGI, Xavante
Any
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite optional
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
gcc or Lua
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
Patch
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Other
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Git
Security/Anti-Spam PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
builtin
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
Proprietary
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Development/Support PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#49
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Unknown
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
2
German, English
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Features PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
All
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Perl
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Lua, JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Usability PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Output PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
XML export
No
No
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
No
Keywords
Extras PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik 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]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[Sputnik]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
External Link
L<http://www.daemon.de>
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org)
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
Headlines
=head1 The Weather
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
# Sputnik
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
Bold Format
B<bold>
**bold**
*bold*
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
Italics Format
I<italics>
//italics//
_italic_
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
Underline Format
via html only
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
put a space in front of monospaced text
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
via html only
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
via html only
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
via html only
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
G<logo.png>
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%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}}
Aligning Text
via stylesheet only
Plugin
| 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}}
Text Indentation
via stylesheet only
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
> Sputnik
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
=over

=item* listitem

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

=item 1. listitem

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