PmWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. Wiclear

General Features PmWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Version
2.5.3
1.5.1
1.0
Last Release Date
2025-11-08 (21 days ago)
2016-03-07 (9 years ago)
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-11-08 (21 days ago)
2016-03-23 (9 years ago)
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
PukiWiki Development Team
David Jobet
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL2
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
private users
System Requirements PmWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
All
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
Apache
Other Requirements
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
MySql
Datastorage PmWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Plugin
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
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)
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
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
Host Blocking
Optional
Patch
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Patch
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support PmWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PmWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
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
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
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
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
No
Unknown
Links PmWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Patch
No
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Unknown
Syntax Features PmWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
HTML Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
No
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)
Not at the moment
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability PmWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Section Editing
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Optional
Patch
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics PmWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Optional
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Output PmWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
No
No
XML export
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
File Attachments
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
Extras PmWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
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]]
[Title]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[Title|http://url.to/]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
''bold''
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
'''italic'''
''italic''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
N/A
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
N/A
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
N/A
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|title|left|longer description|100|100))
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
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
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
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
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
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
Definition Lists
: term : definition
:term|definition
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
Horizontal Rule
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