| General Features | Sputnik | Wiki.js | PageWork | ikiwiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
8.08.13
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2.5.299
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0.4.8
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2.67
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| Last Release Date |
2008-08-12 (15 years ago)
|
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
|
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
|
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2009-02-02 (15 years ago)
|
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
|
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
|
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
|
| Author |
Yuri Takhteyev
|
Nicolas Giard
|
Pitt Murmann
|
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
MIT/X
|
AGPL-v3
|
GPLv3
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GPL
|
| Programming Language |
Lua
|
Javascript
|
PHP
|
Perl
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files, RCS
|
Database, Files, other, 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
|
Everyone
|
Medium-sized sites
|
Anyone
|
| System Requirements | Sputnik | Wiki.js | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
|
All
|
Any
|
Any
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, CGI, Xavante
|
All
|
Any
|
Any, or none
|
| Other Requirements |
gcc or Lua
|
Node.js
|
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
|
|
| Datastorage | Sputnik | Wiki.js | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Git
|
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
|
||
| Security/Anti-Spam | Sputnik | Wiki.js | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
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Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
|
Proprietary
|
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Sputnik | Wiki.js | 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
|
19117 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | Sputnik | Wiki.js | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
|
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 | Wiki.js | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian |
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
2
German, English |
1
English |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
No
|
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
None
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Links | Sputnik | Wiki.js | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| CamelCase |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | Sputnik | Wiki.js | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
All
|
All
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
Lua, JavaScript
|
JS, CSS
|
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
|
|
| Content Includes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | Sputnik | Wiki.js | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | Sputnik | Wiki.js | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Output | Sputnik | Wiki.js | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| Printer Friendly |
No
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Sputnik | Wiki.js | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Embedded Video |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
No
|
No
|
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | Sputnik | Wiki.js | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Sputnik | Wiki.js | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| Internal Link |
[[Sputnik]] |
[Link Title](/link/to/page) |
[[link]] [[link|alternate text]] |
[[internal]] |
| External Link |
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org) |
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org) |
http://www.wikimatrix.org/ |
[link text](http://example.org) |
| Headlines |
# Sputnik |
# Header 1 ## Header 2 ### Header 3 |
= 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 Text** |
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong). This is **bold**, too. |
**bold** __bold__ |
| Italics Format |
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_ |
*Italic Text* |
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized). This is in //italics//, too. |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
| Underline Format |
|
<u>Underline Text</u> |
This is __underlined__. |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
|
`Monospace Code` |
This is %%monospaced%%. |
`inline monospace` indented block of monospaced text tab-indented block |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
~~Strikethrough Text~~ |
This is --not-- important. |
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
| Superscript Format |
|
^Superscript Text^ |
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^ |
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
~Subscript Text~ |
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^} |
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
| Images |
|
 |
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}} |
  |
| Aligning Text |
|
|
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}} |
|
| Text Indentation |
> Sputnik |
|
> L1 quote >> L2 quote |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* Sputnik |
- Item 1 - Item 2 - Item 3 |
* one * two ** two alpha ** two beta * three |
* item 1 * item 2 * item 2.1 * item 2.2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Sputnik |
1. Item 1 2. Item 2 3. Item 3 |
# 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 |
via HTML: <dl> <dt>term</dt> <dd>definition</dd> </dl> |
| Horizontal Rule |
- - - |
--- |
--- |
--- *** ___ ------------------ Any number > 3 - - - - - - - - - - spaces don't matter |
| remove Sputnik | remove Wiki.js | remove PageWork | remove ikiwiki |