MediaWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. SubWiki vs. Wiclear

General Features MediaWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
Version
1.45.3
1.5.1
0.1-dev
1.0
Last Release Date
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
no official
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-06-03 (1 day ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
PukiWiki Development Team
Greg Stein
David Jobet
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Academic Free License
GPL2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Alpha
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
One theme, one PukiWiki
private users
System Requirements MediaWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
Apache
Other Requirements
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
MySql
Datastorage MediaWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
Other
No
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
No
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
1
English
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Flat
Categories
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Links MediaWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Patch
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features MediaWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
None
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Tables
simple + complex
complex
none
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
None
Not at the moment
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Usability MediaWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
Section Editing
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Patch
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
No
Statistics MediaWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
No
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
No
Analysis
Optional
No
No
No
Output MediaWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
No
No
XML export
Yes
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
No
No
Extras MediaWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[Title]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[Title|http://url.to/]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
''bold''
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
'''italic'''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
%%%underlined%%%
N/A
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
N/A
{{monospaced}}
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
%%strikethrough%%
N/A
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
N/A
N/A
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
N/A
N/A
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
N/A
Text Indentation
: indented line
N/A
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
Definition Lists
; term : definition
:term|definition
N/A
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
Horizontal Rule
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