PmWiki vs. Hatta vs. PukiWiki

General Features PmWiki Hatta PukiWiki
Version
2.6.0
1.6.6
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2026-05-16 (27 days ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-05-16 (27 days ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Radomir Dopieralski
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL v2
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements PmWiki Hatta PukiWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
Mercurial
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage PmWiki Hatta PukiWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki Hatta PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
n/a
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
No
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Optional
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support PmWiki Hatta PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PmWiki Hatta PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features PmWiki Hatta PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Optional
No
Interface Languages
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
Optional
No
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Optional
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
No
Structured Data
Yes
No
No
Links PmWiki Hatta PukiWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Patch
Page Redirects
Yes
No
No
Syntax Features PmWiki Hatta PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
None
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Yes
No
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Plugin
Usability PmWiki Hatta PukiWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Optional
No
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics PmWiki Hatta PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Output PmWiki Hatta PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
No
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
No
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Plugin
No
No
XML export
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki Hatta PukiWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras PmWiki Hatta PukiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
No
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Optional
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki Hatta PukiWiki
Internal Link 
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
 
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
 
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link 
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
 
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
 
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines 
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
 
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
 
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format 
'''bold'''
 
**bold**
 
''bold''
Italics Format 
''italic''
 
//italic//
 
'''italic'''
Underline Format 
{+underlined+}
 
n/a
 
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format 
@@monospace@@
 
{{{verbatim}}}
 
N/A
Strikethrough Format 
{-strikethrough-}
 
n/a
 
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format 
'^superscript^'
 
n/a
 
N/A
Subscript Format 
'_subscript_'
 
n/a
 
N/A
Images 
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
 
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
 
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text 
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
 
n/a
 
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
 
n/a
 
N/A
Bulleted Lists 
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
 
* list
** sublist
 
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists 
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
 
n/a
 
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists 
: term : definition
 
n/a
 
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule 
----
 
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