Sputnik vs. Foswiki vs. PageWork vs. ikiwiki

General Features Sputnik Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki
Version
8.08.13
2.1.8
0.4.8
2.67
Last Release Date
2008-08-12 (15 years ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-02-02 (15 years ago)
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
Author
Yuri Takhteyev
Foswiki Community
Pitt Murmann
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT/X
GPL
GPLv3
GPL
Programming Language
Lua
Perl
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
none
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small teams or private users
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Medium-sized sites
Anyone
System Requirements Sputnik Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Any
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, CGI, Xavante
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any
Any, or none
Other Requirements
gcc or Lua
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage Sputnik Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki
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
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Yes
Other
Git
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam Sputnik Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Proprietary
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Development/Support Sputnik Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
97 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Sputnik Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Sputnik Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
German, English
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links Sputnik Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Sputnik Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Lua, JavaScript
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability Sputnik Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Statistics Sputnik Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
No
Output Sputnik Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Sputnik Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras Sputnik Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Sputnik Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki
Internal Link
[[Sputnik]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
[[internal]]
External Link
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org)
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
# Sputnik
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__
*bold*
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_
_italic_
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
This is __underlined__.
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
This is %%monospaced%%.
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
This is --not-- important.
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
| 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
> Sputnik
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
* Sputnik
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
1. Sputnik
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
- - -
---
---
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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