PukiWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. KeheiWiki

General Features PukiWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
Version
1.5.1
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Pleiades-M45
Last Release Date
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL 2
LGPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
personal, small to medium companies
corporate and special interest groups
System Requirements PukiWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
Operating System
OS independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix/Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Other Requirements
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
perl 4 or newer
Datastorage PukiWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
None
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Apache
Host Blocking
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Plugin
Development/Support PukiWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4692 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PukiWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Optional
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Links PukiWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PukiWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Unknown
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Optional
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Optional
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Optional, PHP
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability PukiWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
Section Editing
Patch
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics PukiWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output PukiWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Plugin
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PukiWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras PukiWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
Yes
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Optional
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PukiWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
External Link
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
Headlines
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Italics Format
'''italic'''
//italics//
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Underline Format
%%%underlined%%%
__underlined__
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Monospace Format
N/A
''monospace''
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
<del>strikethrough</del>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Superscript Format
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Images
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Plugin
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
N/A
N/A
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Numbered Lists
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Definition Lists
:term|definition
Plugin
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Horizontal Rule
--------------------
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
remove PukiWiki remove DokuWiki remove KeheiWiki