ConnectedText vs. DokuWiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features ConnectedText DokuWiki PukiWiki
Version
5.0.0.1
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-02-19 (7 years ago)
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
Eduardo Mauro
Andreas Gohr
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
GPL 2
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
Programming Language Not relevant (completely self-contained)
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
39,95
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone doing research needing a tool with wiki capabilities for data organization and retrieval. Standalone wiki system
personal, small to medium companies
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements ConnectedText DokuWiki PukiWiki
Operating System
Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
No need
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage ConnectedText DokuWiki PukiWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
Firebird
None
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam ConnectedText DokuWiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No need
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Patch
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support ConnectedText DokuWiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4693 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ConnectedText DokuWiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ConnectedText DokuWiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
5
Danish, German, English, Italian, Portuguese
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
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
No
Links ConnectedText DokuWiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Patch
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features ConnectedText DokuWiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Yes
Optional, PHP
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability ConnectedText DokuWiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics ConnectedText DokuWiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Output ConnectedText DokuWiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files ConnectedText DokuWiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Extras ConnectedText DokuWiki PukiWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Optional
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ConnectedText DokuWiki PukiWiki
Internal Link
[[wiki page]]
[[wiki page|Title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
[[$URL:www.connectedtext.com]]
[[$URL:www.connectedtext.com|Title]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
= Head1 =
== Head 2 ==
=== Head 3 ====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
'''italic'''
Underline Format
__Underline__
__underlined__
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
{{{Monospace}}}
''monospace''
N/A
Strikethrough Format
--Strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
^^Superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
N/A
Subscript Format
vvSubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
N/A
Images
[[$IMG:Image.jpeg]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text
~~Centered text~~
Plugin
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
: First level of indenting
:: Second level
N/A
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* First item
* Seconditem
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. First item
1. Second item
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
Plugin
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
--------------------
remove ConnectedText remove DokuWiki remove PukiWiki