alphawiki vs. PageWork vs. PukiWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features alphawiki PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
Version
v.20160608
0.4.8
1.5.1
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2016-08-06 (9 years ago)
2010-07-20 (15 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
Last Update here
2016-09-10 (9 years ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
Author
marty alain
Pitt Murmann
PukiWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU-GPL
GPLv3
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP+Javascript
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
none
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users, small teams
Medium-sized sites
One theme, one PukiWiki
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements alphawiki PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
probably every OS
Any
OS independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache with PHP support
Any
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage alphawiki PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Patch
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
None
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
None
Security/Anti-Spam alphawiki PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
Proprietary
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
No
Patch
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Optional
Development/Support alphawiki PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features alphawiki PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features alphawiki PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
2
German, English
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
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
No
No
Yes
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Links alphawiki PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Optional
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Patch
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Features alphawiki PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability alphawiki PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Optional
Yes
Patch
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
No
Yes
Statistics alphawiki PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
No
Plugin
Output alphawiki PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files alphawiki PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
No
Filenames only
Extras alphawiki PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples alphawiki PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
{b I am bold}
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
{i I am italic}
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
'''italic'''
//italics//
Underline Format
{u I am underline}
This is __underlined__.
%%%underlined%%%
__underlined__
Monospace Format
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
This is %%monospaced%%.
N/A
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
{del I am line-through}
This is --not-- important.
%%strikethrough%%
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
E = mc{sup 2}
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
{center I am centered}
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Plugin
Text Indentation
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
N/A
N/A
Bulleted Lists
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
: term : definition
:term|definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
{hr}
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