Sputnik vs. PageWork vs. ikiwiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features Sputnik PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
Version
8.08.13
0.4.8
2.67
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2008-08-12 (15 years ago)
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-02-02 (15 years ago)
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Yuri Takhteyev
Pitt Murmann
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT/X
GPLv3
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
Lua
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
none
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small teams or private users
Medium-sized sites
Anyone
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements Sputnik PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
Any
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, CGI, Xavante
Any
Any, or none
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
gcc or Lua
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage Sputnik PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Patch
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
Other
Git
None
Security/Anti-Spam Sputnik PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Proprietary
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Optional
Development/Support Sputnik PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features Sputnik PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Sputnik PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
2
German, English
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
Email notification
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Links Sputnik PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features Sputnik PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Lua, JavaScript
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Sputnik PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Yes
Statistics Sputnik PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Plugin
Output Sputnik PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Sputnik PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras Sputnik PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Sputnik PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
[[Sputnik]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
[[internal]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org)
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
[link text](http://example.org)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
# Sputnik
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

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

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italics//
Underline Format
This is __underlined__.
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
This is %%monospaced%%.
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
This is --not-- important.
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
via HTML: a<sub>1</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}}
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
{{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}}
Plugin
Text Indentation
> Sputnik
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Sputnik
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Sputnik
# 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
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
- - -
---
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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