DokuWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2016-03-07 (9 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2016-03-23 (9 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Public Domain (!)
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
small + medium sites, development teams
Any
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
various opt. helpers
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Text Files
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Plugin
Yes
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
None
no
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Patch
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
#phpwiki
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
4471 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Patch
No
No
Interface Languages
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Links DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
optional
plugins, templates, PHP
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Patch
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Optional
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Output DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Optional
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Optional
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
No
Extras DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Yes
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Internal Link 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
 
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]

WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
 
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link 
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
 
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
 
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
 
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines 
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
 
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
 
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3

* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format 
**bold**
 
__bold text__
**bold text**

*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
 
''bold''
Italics Format 
//italics//
 
''ialic text''
 
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
 
'''italic'''
Underline Format 
__underlined__
 
optional or via css
 
<u>underlined</u>
 
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format 
''monospace''
 
==monospaced text==
 
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>



N/A
Strikethrough Format 
<del>strikethrough</del>
 
optional or via css
 
<strike>striked through</strike>
 
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
^^superscript text^^
 
<sup>above</sup>
 
N/A
Subscript Format 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
optional or via css

<sub>below</sub>
 
N/A
Images 
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
 
[link to the image.jpg]

[ 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

#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text 
Plugin
 
optional or via css
 
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>


CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation 
N/A
 
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
 
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 

N/A
Bulleted Lists 
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
 
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1

* list
or
- list
 
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists 
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
 
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b


# list
 
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists 
Plugin
 
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description

Term:<def>
def
 
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule 
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