MediaWiki vs. ProntoWiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features MediaWiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Version
1.45.3
1.0.1
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2026-06-04 (today)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-06-03 (1 day ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Clay Alberty
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
PHP
C#
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements MediaWiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Windows
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
IIS 5+
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage MediaWiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Text Files
No
Unknown
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Unknown
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Unknown
No
Oracle
No
Unknown
No
SQLite
Yes
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
Unknown
No
Other
No
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
.NET Membership platform
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
No
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
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
1
English
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
Optional
No
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Optional
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Unknown
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
No
Links MediaWiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Optional
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Patch
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
No
Syntax Features MediaWiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
none
complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Unknown
No
Textile Support
No
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
Scripting
Optional
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Yes
No
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Plugin
Usability MediaWiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics MediaWiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Optional
No
No
Output MediaWiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
No
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
No
No
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
Extras MediaWiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[pagename]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
{title|url}
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!, !!, !!!
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
''italics''
'''italic'''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__under__
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
N/A
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<<super>> (using custom tags)
N/A
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
N/A
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
#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>
available through custom tags
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
: indented line
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
+
++
+++
++++
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
#
##
###
####
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
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