Hatta vs. DokuWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. Zim

General Features Hatta DokuWiki PukiWiki Zim
Version
1.6.6
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
1.5.1
0.56
Last Release Date
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
Author
Radomir Dopieralski
Andreas Gohr
PukiWiki Development Team
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
GPL 2
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
Programming Language
Python
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
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
Private users, small teams
System Requirements Hatta DokuWiki PukiWiki Zim
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
None
Other Requirements
Mercurial
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage Hatta DokuWiki PukiWiki Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Optional
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Other
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
None
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam Hatta DokuWiki PukiWiki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
n/a
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
File permissions
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Patch
No
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support Hatta DokuWiki PukiWiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4707 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Hatta DokuWiki PukiWiki Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Hatta DokuWiki PukiWiki Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
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
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
No
No
Links Hatta DokuWiki PukiWiki Zim
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Features Hatta DokuWiki PukiWiki Zim
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Plugin
None
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
complex
none
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
None
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability Hatta DokuWiki PukiWiki Zim
Section Editing
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Statistics Hatta DokuWiki PukiWiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
Output Hatta DokuWiki PukiWiki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Hatta DokuWiki PukiWiki Zim
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
No
Extras Hatta DokuWiki PukiWiki Zim
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Optional
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Hatta DokuWiki PukiWiki Zim
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
'''italic'''
//italic//
Underline Format
n/a
__underlined__
%%%underlined%%%
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{verbatim}}}
''monospace''
N/A
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
n/a
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%strikethrough%%
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
n/a
<sup>superscript</sup>
N/A
^{sup}
Subscript Format
n/a
<sub>subscript</sub>
N/A
_{sub}
Images
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
n/a
Plugin
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
not implemented
Text Indentation
n/a
N/A
N/A
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* list
** sublist
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
n/a
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
n/a
Plugin
:term|definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
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not implemented
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