PmWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. TWiki vs. XWiki

General Features PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
Version
2.5.8
1.5.1
TWiki-6.1.0
18.2.0
Last Release Date
2026-03-09 (23 days ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-30 (2 days ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-09 (23 days ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-03-31 (1 day ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
PukiWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
One theme, one PukiWiki
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
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
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
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.
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Optional
Patch
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Optional
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Development/Support PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
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
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
No
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
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
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Links PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Optional
Patch
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Output PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
Contents
Extras PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
''bold''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
'''italic'''
_italic_
//Italics//
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
%%%underlined%%%
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
N/A
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
%%strikethrough%%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
#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
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
: term : definition
:term|definition
$ Term: Definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
--------------------
---
----
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