ProntoWiki vs. ProWiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
Version
1.0.1
2.0.045
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2026-04-04 (today)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
Clay Alberty
Helmut Leitner
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
C#
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
Operating System
Windows
Unix / Linux
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS 5+
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
Text Files
Unknown
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Unknown
No
No
PostgreSQL
Unknown
No
No
Oracle
Unknown
No
No
SQLite
Unknown
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
RCS
Unknown
Yes
No
Other
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
.NET Membership platform
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Patch
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Special Features ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
No
Interface Languages
1
English
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
No
Plugin
Categories
Optional
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
No
Structured Data
Unknown
No
No
Links ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Patch
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
No
Syntax Features ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
No
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
No
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
Usability ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Patch
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Output ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
No
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Extras ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Optional
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
Internal Link
[pagename]
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
{title|url}
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
!, !!, !!!
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
'''italic'''
Underline Format
__under__
<u>underlined</u>
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
N/A
Strikethrough Format
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
[[strike]strikethrough text]
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
<<super>> (using custom tags)
<sup>text</sup>
N/A
Subscript Format
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
<sub>text</sub>
N/A
Images
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text
available through custom tags
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
: indented line
:: indented line
N/A
Bulleted Lists
+
++
+++
++++
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists
#
##
###
####
# numbered list
## numbered list
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
; term: definition
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
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