PageWork vs. PukiWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
Version
0.4.8
1.5.1
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2010-07-20 (15 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
Author
Pitt Murmann
PukiWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
none
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Medium-sized sites
One theme, one PukiWiki
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Any
OS independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Patch
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
None
Security/Anti-Spam PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Proprietary
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Patch
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Patch
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Optional
Development/Support PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
No
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
No
Plugin
Links PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Patch
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Features PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Patch
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Output PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
No
Filenames only
Extras PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Optional
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PageWork PukiWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
'''italic'''
//italics//
Underline Format
This is __underlined__.
%%%underlined%%%
__underlined__
Monospace Format
This is %%monospaced%%.
N/A
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
This is --not-- important.
%%strikethrough%%
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Plugin
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
N/A
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
:term|definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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