PmWiki vs. Wala Wiki vs. Hatta vs. PukiWiki vs. PageWork

General Features PmWiki Wala Wiki Hatta PukiWiki PageWork
Version
2.6.0
1.1.7
1.6.6
1.5.1
0.4.8
Last Release Date
2026-05-16 (27 days ago)
2026-03-12 (3 months ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2010-07-20 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-05-16 (27 days ago)
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
Radomir Dopieralski
PukiWiki Development Team
Pitt Murmann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
Public Domain
GPL v2
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPLv3
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
One theme, one PukiWiki
Medium-sized sites
System Requirements PmWiki Wala Wiki Hatta PukiWiki PageWork
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, *BSD
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
OS independent
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Any that supports basic CGI.
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any
Other Requirements
none
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
Mercurial
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage PmWiki Wala Wiki Hatta PukiWiki PageWork
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Patch
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
diffs
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki Wala Wiki Hatta PukiWiki PageWork
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
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.
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
n/a
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Proprietary
Host Blocking
Optional
No
No
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
No
No
Patch
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Optional
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
Yes
Development/Support PmWiki Wala Wiki Hatta PukiWiki PageWork
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
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
N/A
N/A
Common Features PmWiki Wala Wiki Hatta PukiWiki PageWork
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki Wala Wiki Hatta PukiWiki PageWork
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Optional
No
Optional
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
1
English
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
2
German, English
Email notification
Optional
No
No
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Links PmWiki Wala Wiki Hatta PukiWiki PageWork
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Unknown
No
Patch
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki Wala Wiki Hatta PukiWiki PageWork
HTML Tags
Plugin
None
None
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
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
No
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability PmWiki Wala Wiki Hatta PukiWiki PageWork
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Toolbar
Optional
No
No
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Statistics PmWiki Wala Wiki Hatta PukiWiki PageWork
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
No
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Output PmWiki Wala Wiki Hatta PukiWiki PageWork
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
HTML Export
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
XML export
Plugin
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki Wala Wiki Hatta PukiWiki PageWork
File Attachments
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
No
Keywords
Extras PmWiki Wala Wiki Hatta PukiWiki PageWork
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki Wala Wiki Hatta PukiWiki PageWork
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
LinkDump, [link dump]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
= headline =
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bolded'''
**bold**
''bold''
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
Italics Format
''italic''
''italicized''
//italic//
'''italic'''
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
n/a
%%%underlined%%%
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
monospaced.
{{{verbatim}}}
N/A
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
n/a
%%strikethrough%%
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
n/a
N/A
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
n/a
N/A
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
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
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
:Block-quoted text.
n/a
N/A
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
* list
** sublist
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# One
# Two
# Three
n/a
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
Definition Lists
: term : definition
n/a
:term|definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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