ProWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features ProWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Version
2.0.045
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Any
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements ProWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Operating System
Unix / Linux
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
various opt. helpers
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage ProWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Patch
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support ProWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
No
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
No
Patch
No
Links ProWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Patch
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features ProWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability ProWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Patch
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics ProWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Output ProWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Optional
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
No
Extras ProWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Calendar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Internal Link 
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
 
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
 
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link 
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
 
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
 
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines 
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
 
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3

* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format 
'''bold'''
 
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
 
''bold''
Italics Format 
''italic''
 
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
 
'''italic'''
Underline Format 
<u>underlined</u>
 
<u>underlined</u>
 
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format 
<tt>monospace</tt>
 
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>



N/A
Strikethrough Format 
[[strike]strikethrough text]
 
<strike>striked through</strike>
 
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format 
<sup>text</sup>
 
<sup>above</sup>
 
N/A
Subscript Format 
<sub>text</sub>
 
<sub>below</sub>
 
N/A
Images 
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]

[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image

#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text 
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
 
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>


CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation 
: indented line
:: indented line
 
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 

N/A
Bulleted Lists 
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
 
* list
or
- list
 
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists 
# numbered list
## numbered list
 
# list
 
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists 
; term: definition
 
Term:<def>
def
 
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule 
----
 
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