mobiki vs. ProntoWiki vs. ProWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. TWiki vs. Wiki-Toolkit

General Features mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Version
2016-06-26
1.0.1
2.0.045
1.5.1
TWiki-6.1.0
0.72
Last Release Date
2016-06-26 (9 years ago)
2026-04-24 (today)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2006-08-31 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-06-26 (9 years ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2006-12-05 (19 years ago)
Author
Martin D�ring
Clay Alberty
Helmut Leitner
PukiWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Dominic Hargreaves
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
BSD
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
GPL/Artistic
Programming Language
PHP
C#
Perl
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
0
N/A
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Text centric websites and mobile use
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
One theme, one PukiWiki
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Wiki Developers
System Requirements mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Operating System
any
Windows
Unix / Linux
OS independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Anything that runs Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
any
IIS 5+
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
PHP 5.4+
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Text Files
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Unknown
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
No
Other
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
.NET Membership platform
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Plugin Interface
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
#wiki-toolkit on irc.perl.org
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Change Summary
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Optional
Interface Languages
0
1
English
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
No
No
No
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Links mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Backlinks
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Windows Shares
No
No
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
HTML Tags
None
Some
Some
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Tables
none
none
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Textile Support
No
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Footnotes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Quoting
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Usability mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Access Keys
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Statistics mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Recent Changes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Analysis
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Output mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Raw Export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
XML export
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
PDF Export
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
No
No
Contents
No
Extras mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Calendar
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Internal Link
[Internal Link]
[pagename]
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://mobiki.datenbrei.de
[Text|http://mobiki.datenbrei.de]
{title|url}
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
!Headline
!, !!, !!!
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
''bold''
*bold*
Italics Format
''italics''
''italics''
''italic''
'''italic'''
_italic_
Underline Format
n/a
__under__
<u>underlined</u>
%%%underlined%%%
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
n/a
<tt>monospace</tt>
N/A
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
n/a
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
[[strike]strikethrough text]
%%strikethrough%%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
n/a
<<super>> (using custom tags)
<sup>text</sup>
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
n/a
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
<sub>text</sub>
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://image.png
image:example.jpg
images:imagefolder
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
___
aligned text
___
available through custom tags
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
n/a
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
: indented line
:: indented line
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
- One
- Two
* One
* Two
+
++
+++
++++
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
0. One
0. Two
0. Three
#
##
###
####
# numbered list
## numbered list
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
n/a
; term: definition
:term|definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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