LionWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features LionWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki
Version
3.2.4
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
5.1.21
Pleiades-M45
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2010-09-20 (15 years ago)
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-01 (15 years ago)
2026-03-25 (6 days ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
Adam Živnéř
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
team
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
GPL 2
BSD
LGPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
advanced users, minimalists
personal, small to medium companies
Individuals, private, small groups
corporate and special interest groups
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements LionWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki
Operating System
All PHP supported
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Unix/Linux
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
A common browser
perl 4 or newer
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage LionWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Plugin
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam LionWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Apache
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
No
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
No
Development/Support LionWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4593 ⭐
8574 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features LionWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features LionWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional
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
1
English
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
None
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Links LionWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features LionWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Optional
All
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
complex
complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript (plugin)
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability LionWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Statistics LionWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output LionWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Unknown
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files LionWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Keywords
No
Extras LionWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples LionWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki
Internal Link
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold''
**bold**
''bold''
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''bold''
Italics Format
''italics''
//italics//
//italic//
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'''italic'''
Underline Format
'__underline__'
__underlined__
__underline__
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{{monospaced}}}
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
N/A
Strikethrough Format
'--strikethrough--'
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
N/A
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
N/A
Images
[path_to_img.jpg]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
#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
}}}
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists
# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term
: description
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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