MediaWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Version
1.32.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2016-03-07 (9 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2016-03-23 (9 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
various opt. helpers
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Other
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
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 MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Patch
No
Links MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Patch
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Patch
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
No
Output MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
No
Extras MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Blogs
No
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Internal Link 
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
 
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
 
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link 
[http://example.org The title]
 
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
 
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines 
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
 
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3

* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format 
'''bold'''
 
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
 
''bold''
Italics Format 
''italic''
 
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
 
'''italic'''
Underline Format 
<u>underlined</u>
 
<u>underlined</u>
 
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format 
<tt>monospace</tt>
 
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>



N/A
Strikethrough Format 
<s>strikethrough</s>
 
<strike>striked through</strike>
 
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
<sup>above</sup>
 
N/A
Subscript Format 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
<sub>below</sub>
 
N/A
Images 
[[Image:wiki.png]]
 
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image

#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text 
<center>Centered</center>
 
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>


CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation 
: indented line
 
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 

N/A
Bulleted Lists 
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
 
* list
or
- list
 
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists 
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
 
# list
 
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists 
; term : definition
 
Term:<def>
def
 
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule 
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