PmWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Version
2.5.3
1.5.1
6.1.29
Last Release Date
2025-11-08 (21 days ago)
2016-03-07 (9 years ago)
2025-09-03 (2 months ago)
Last Update here
2025-11-08 (21 days ago)
2016-03-23 (9 years ago)
2025-10-13 (1 month ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
PukiWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
One theme, one PukiWiki
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
OS Independent
Root Access
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
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Plugin
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
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
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Optional
Patch
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Patch
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
# 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 PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
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 PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Yes
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
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
No
Plugin
Links PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Patch
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
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)
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Optional
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
No
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Optional
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
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]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
'''bold'''
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
'''italic'''
//italics//
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
%%%underlined%%%
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
N/A
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
%%strikethrough%%
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
N/A
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
N/A
vvsubscriptvv
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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
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
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
one
two
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
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
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. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
: term : definition
:term|definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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