MediaWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. Wiclear

General Features MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Version
1.32.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.5.1
1.0
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2016-03-07 (9 years ago)
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2016-03-23 (9 years ago)
2007-09-16 (18 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
David Jobet
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
One theme, one PukiWiki
private users
System Requirements MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache
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.
MySql
Datastorage MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Patch
No
Unknown
Links MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Patch
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Syntax Features MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Not at the moment
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Section Editing
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Output MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
No
XML export
Yes
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
No
No
Extras MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[Title]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[Title|http://url.to/]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
''bold''
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
'''italic'''
''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
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
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
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
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
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# list
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Term:<def>
def
:term|definition
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
Horizontal Rule
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