| General Features | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Hatta | PukiWiki | Foswiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
|
2.7.1
|
1.6.6
|
1.5.1
|
2.1.11
|
| Last Release Date |
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
|
2026-07-24 (1 day 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)
|
2026-07-24 (1 day ago)
|
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
|
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
|
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
|
| Author |
Andreas Gohr
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
Radomir Dopieralski
|
PukiWiki Development Team
|
Foswiki Community
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL 2
|
GPL2+
|
GPL v2
|
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
Python
|
PHP
|
Perl
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Files
|
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
$0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
personal, small to medium companies
|
All
|
One theme, one PukiWiki
|
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
|
| System Requirements | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Hatta | PukiWiki | Foswiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
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
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
|
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
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 | PmWiki | Hatta | PukiWiki | Foswiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Other |
None
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
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 | PmWiki | Hatta | PukiWiki | Foswiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
|
n/a
|
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Development/Support | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Hatta | PukiWiki | Foswiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
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
|
N/A
|
118 ⭐
|
| Common Features | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Hatta | PukiWiki | Foswiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Number
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
To current
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Hatta | PukiWiki | Foswiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Optional
|
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 |
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 |
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
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Links | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Hatta | PukiWiki | Foswiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Hatta | PukiWiki | Foswiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
None
|
Plugin
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
JavaScript
|
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
|
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Hatta | PukiWiki | Foswiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Hatta | PukiWiki | Foswiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Output | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Hatta | PukiWiki | Foswiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Hatta | PukiWiki | Foswiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Filenames only
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
Contents
|
| Extras | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Hatta | PukiWiki | Foswiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Hatta | PukiWiki | Foswiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
[[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://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
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 == |
! Level 1 !!#anchor Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
= 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'' |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
//italic// |
'''italic''' |
_italic_ |
| Underline Format |
__underlined__ |
{+underlined+} |
n/a |
%%%underlined%%% |
<u>underline</u> |
| Monospace Format |
''monospace'' |
@@monospace@@ |
{{{verbatim}}} |
N/A |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
{-strikethrough-} |
n/a |
%%strikethrough%% |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
n/a |
N/A |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
n/a |
N/A |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
{{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 |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
n/a |
CENTER:center RIGHT:right LEFT:left |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
| Text Indentation |
N/A |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
n/a |
N/A |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
| Bulleted Lists |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * 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 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # 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 |
: term : definition |
n/a |
:term|definition |
$ Term: Definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
---- |
---- |
-------------------- |
--- |
| remove DokuWiki | remove PmWiki | remove Hatta | remove PukiWiki | remove Foswiki |