alphawiki vs. Wala Wiki vs. PukiWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki PmWiki
Version
v.20160608
1.1.7
1.5.1
2.6.0
Last Release Date
2016-08-06 (9 years ago)
2026-03-17 (3 months ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2016-09-10 (9 years ago)
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
Author
marty alain
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
PukiWiki Development Team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU-GPL
Public Domain
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL2+
Programming Language
PHP+Javascript
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users, small teams
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
One theme, one PukiWiki
All
System Requirements alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki PmWiki
Operating System
probably every OS
Linux, *BSD
OS independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache with PHP support
Any that supports basic CGI.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
none
Datastorage alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
None
diffs
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
No
No
Patch
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
Patch
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Optional
Development/Support alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
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
To current
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
No
Yes
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Links alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Syntax Features alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
None
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Scripting
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Usability alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Optional
No
Patch
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
Patch
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
No
No
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
No
Plugin
Output alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
No
No
Plugin
XML export
No
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
No
Filenames only
Extras alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
LinkDump, [link dump]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
= headline =
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
{b I am bold}
'''bolded'''
''bold''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
{i I am italic}
''italicized''
'''italic'''
''italic''
Underline Format
{u I am underline}
%%%underlined%%%
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
monospaced.
N/A
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
{del I am line-through}
%%strikethrough%%
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
E = mc{sup 2}
N/A
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
N/A
'_subscript_'
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"
}}
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
{center I am centered}
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
:Block-quoted text.
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* 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
# Three
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
:term|definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
{hr}
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