DokuWiki vs. Hatta vs. PukiWiki vs. Foswiki

General Features DokuWiki Hatta PukiWiki Foswiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
1.6.6
1.5.1
2.1.11
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Radomir Dopieralski
PukiWiki Development Team
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL v2
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
One theme, one PukiWiki
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements DokuWiki Hatta PukiWiki Foswiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
OS independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
Mercurial
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage DokuWiki Hatta PukiWiki Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Yes
Other
None
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Hatta PukiWiki Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
n/a
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Patch
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
No
Patch
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support DokuWiki Hatta PukiWiki Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
4691 ⭐
N/A
N/A
118 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki Hatta PukiWiki Foswiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Hatta PukiWiki Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
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
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Links DokuWiki Hatta PukiWiki Foswiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Syntax Features DokuWiki Hatta PukiWiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
Optional
None
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki Hatta PukiWiki Foswiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki Hatta PukiWiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Output DokuWiki Hatta PukiWiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files DokuWiki Hatta PukiWiki Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras DokuWiki Hatta PukiWiki Foswiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Hatta PukiWiki Foswiki
Internal Link 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
 
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
 
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
 
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link 
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
 
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
 
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]

External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines 
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
 
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
 
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
 
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format 
**bold**
 
**bold**
 
''bold''
 
*bold*
Italics Format 
//italics//
 
//italic//
 
'''italic'''
 
_italic_
Underline Format 
__underlined__
 
n/a
 
%%%underlined%%%
 
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format 
''monospace''
 
{{{verbatim}}}
 
N/A
 
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format 
<del>strikethrough</del>
 
n/a
 
%%strikethrough%%
 
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
n/a
 
N/A
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
n/a
 
N/A
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images 
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
 
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
 
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
 
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text 
Plugin
 
n/a
 
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
 
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation 
N/A
 
n/a
 
N/A
 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists 
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
 
* list
** sublist
 
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2

* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists 
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
 
n/a
 
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
 
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists 
Plugin
 
n/a
 
:term|definition
 
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule 
----
 
----
 
--------------------
 
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