JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PmWiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Version
2.11.0
1.32.2
2.5.8
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2026-03-09 (23 days ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2026-03-09 (23 days ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL2+
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Optional
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Optional
Patch
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
Patch
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Optional
No
Development/Support JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
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
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Links JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
No
Yes
Patch
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Usability JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Output JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Extras JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
''italic''
'''italic'''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
N/A
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
N/A
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
N/A
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* 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 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term : definition
: term : definition
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
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