DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PukiWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
5.1.21
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (6 days ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Individuals, private, small groups
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PukiWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
A common browser
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PukiWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
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
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
No
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Unknown
No
Development/Support DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
4593 ⭐
8574 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
No
Page History
Yes
Plugin
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 DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
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, French, Japanese
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
No
Links DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Patch
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
Extras DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PukiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PukiWiki
Internal Link 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
 
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
 
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link 
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
 
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
 
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines 
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
 
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
 
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format 
**bold**
 
''bold''
 
''bold''
Italics Format 
//italics//
 
//italic//
 
'''italic'''
Underline Format 
__underlined__
 
__underline__
 
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format 
''monospace''
 
{{{monospaced}}}
 
N/A
Strikethrough Format 
<del>strikethrough</del>
 
--strikethrough--
 
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
^^superscript^^
 
N/A
Subscript Format 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
~~subscript~~
 
N/A
Images 
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
 
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
 
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text 
Plugin
 
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
 
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation 
N/A
 
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
 
N/A
Bulleted Lists 
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
 
* 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
 
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists 
Plugin
 
; term
: description
 
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule 
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