GWiki vs. ProntoWiki vs. ProWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. TWiki vs. Wiki-Toolkit

General Features GWiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Version
2.4.0
1.0.1
2.0.045
1.5.1
TWiki-6.1.0
0.72
Last Release Date
2018-06-15 (7 years ago)
2026-04-24 (today)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2006-08-31 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (7 years ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2006-12-05 (19 years ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Clay Alberty
Helmut Leitner
PukiWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Dominic Hargreaves
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
BSD
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
GPL/Artistic
Programming Language
Java
C#
Perl
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
Free
0
0
N/A
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
One theme, one PukiWiki
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Wiki Developers
System Requirements GWiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Windows
Unix / Linux
OS independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Anything that runs Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
IIS 5+
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
none
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 GWiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Text Files
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Unknown
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Unknown
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
Unknown
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
No
Other
Google Datastore
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
.NET Membership platform
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Plugin Interface
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support GWiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
#wiki-toolkit on irc.perl.org
Stars on GitHub
7 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features GWiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features GWiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Unknown
No
No
No
Optional
Interface Languages
2
German, English
1
English
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
No
No
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Links GWiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
CamelCase
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Windows Shares
No
No
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features GWiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
HTML Tags
All
Some
Some
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Tables
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Textile Support
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Footnotes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Usability GWiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Access Keys
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Statistics GWiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Recent Changes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Analysis
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Output GWiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
XML export
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
PDF Export
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files GWiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Contents
No
Extras GWiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples GWiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[pagename]
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
{title|url}
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
!, !!, !!!
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
**bold**
'''bold'''
''bold''
*bold*
Italics Format
_Italic format_
''italics''
''italic''
'''italic'''
_italic_
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
__under__
<u>underlined</u>
%%%underlined%%%
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
N/A
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
[[strike]strikethrough text]
%%strikethrough%%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
<<super>> (using custom tags)
<sup>text</sup>
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
<sub>text</sub>
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
#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
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
available through custom tags
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
: indented line
:: indented line
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
+
++
+++
++++
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
#
##
###
####
# numbered list
## numbered list
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
; term: definition
:term|definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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