ProWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Wiclear

General Features ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Wiclear
Version
2.0.045
1.5.1
5.1.21
1.0
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
PukiWiki Development Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
David Jobet
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
BSD
GPL2
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
One theme, one PukiWiki
Individuals, private, small groups
private users
System Requirements ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Wiclear
Operating System
Unix / Linux
OS independent
Any
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
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.
A common browser
MySql
Datastorage ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Wiclear
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
No
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Wiclear
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Wiclear
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
8585 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Wiclear
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Wiclear
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
4
German, English, French, Japanese
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Links ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Wiclear
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Patch
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Wiclear
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
JavaScript
Not at the moment
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Wiclear
Section Editing
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Patch
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Statistics ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Wiclear
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Output ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Wiclear
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Unknown
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Wiclear
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
No
No
No
Extras ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Wiclear
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Wiclear
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[Title]
External Link
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[Title|http://url.to/]
Headlines
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
''bold''
''bold''
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
'''italic'''
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
%%%underlined%%%
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
N/A
{{{monospaced}}}
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
%%strikethrough%%
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
N/A
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
N/A
~~subscript~~
Images
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
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
Numbered Lists
# numbered list
## numbered list
+ 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
; term
: description
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
Horizontal Rule
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