| General Features | Zim | TWiki | PhpWiki | PageWork |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.56
|
TWiki-6.1.0
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phpwiki-1.3.14
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0.4.8
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| Last Release Date |
2012-04-01 (12 years ago)
|
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
|
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
|
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2012-07-16 (11 years ago)
|
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
|
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
|
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
|
| Author |
Jaap Karssenberg
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
|
Pitt Murmann
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
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GPL
|
GPL
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GPLv3
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| Programming Language |
Python
|
Perl, JavaScript
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Files, RCS
|
Database, Files, RCS
|
Database, Files
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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N/A
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0
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none
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Private users, small teams
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
Any
|
Medium-sized sites
|
| System Requirements | Zim | TWiki | PhpWiki | PageWork |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OSX
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Any
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
None
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
Any
|
| Other Requirements |
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
various opt. helpers
|
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
|
| Datastorage | Zim | TWiki | PhpWiki | PageWork |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RCS |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
Text Files with index in SQLite
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Zim | TWiki | PhpWiki | PageWork |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
File permissions
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
|
Proprietary
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Development/Support | Zim | TWiki | PhpWiki | PageWork |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
#phpwiki
|
|||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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| Common Features | Zim | TWiki | PhpWiki | PageWork |
| Preview |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Zim | TWiki | PhpWiki | PageWork |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Interface Languages |
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional |
2
German, English |
| Email notification |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Comments |
No
|
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Links | Zim | TWiki | PhpWiki | PageWork |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Zim | TWiki | PhpWiki | PageWork |
| HTML Tags |
None
|
All
|
Some
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
none
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
None
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
plugins, templates, PHP
|
|
| Content Includes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Zim | TWiki | PhpWiki | PageWork |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | Zim | TWiki | PhpWiki | PageWork |
| Recent Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Output | Zim | TWiki | PhpWiki | PageWork |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Themes & Skins |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| XML export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Zim | TWiki | PhpWiki | PageWork |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
No
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | Zim | TWiki | PhpWiki | PageWork |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Zim | TWiki | PhpWiki | PageWork |
| Internal Link |
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
WikiWord or [somelink] [ desc | pagename ] |
[[link]] [[link|alternate text]] |
| External Link |
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org ftp://somehost/share \\host\share\.. |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
http://someserver/someurl [ desc | exturl ] |
http://www.wikimatrix.org/ |
| Headlines |
=== Heading === |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
= L1 = == L2 == === L3 === ==== L4 ==== ===== L5 ===== = L1 == L2 === L3 ==== L4 ===== L5 |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
*bold* |
*bold* or <strong>bold</strong> |
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong). This is **bold**, too. |
| Italics Format |
//italic// |
_italic_ |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized). This is in //italics//, too. |
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
<u>underline</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
This is __underlined__. |
| Monospace Format |
``monospace`` |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
<tt>monospace</tt> <code>code</code> <pre>preformatted</pre> <verbatim> unparsed text</verbatim> |
This is %%monospaced%%. |
| Strikethrough Format |
~~strike~~ |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<strike>striked through</strike> |
This is --not-- important. |
| Superscript Format |
^{sup} |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>above</sup> |
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^ |
| Subscript Format |
_{sub} |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>below</sub> |
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^} |
| Images |
{{./image.png}} |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] external image [Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] view uploaded image [Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] view and link to another image |
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}} |
| Aligning Text |
not implemented |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?> or <div align="right"> right </div> |
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}} |
| Text Indentation |
indent with tabs |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
;: left indent ;;: more left indent or paragraph and another level |
> L1 quote >> L2 quote |
| Bulleted Lists |
* List item * sub items * with indent |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* list or - list |
* one * two ** two alpha ** two beta * three |
| Numbered Lists |
1. List item a. with sub items b. ... |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# list |
# one # two ## two alpha ## two beta # three |
| Definition Lists |
not implemented |
$ Term: Definition |
Term:<def> def |
: term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
not implemented |
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