PukiWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Version
1.5.1
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2026-03-25 (3 months ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
personal, small to medium companies
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
OS independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
None
Datastorage PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4677 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
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
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
No
Links PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
Patch
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Output PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Forums
Optional
No
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Optional
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link 
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
 
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link 
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]

[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
 
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines 
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
 
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
 
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format 
''bold''
 
**bold**
 
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format 
'''italic'''
 
//italics//
 
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format 
%%%underlined%%%
 
__underlined__
 
__underline__
Monospace Format 
N/A
 
''monospace''
 
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format 
%%strikethrough%%
 
<del>strikethrough</del>
 
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format 
N/A
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
^superscript^
Subscript Format 
N/A
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
,,subscript,,
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}}
 
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text 
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
 
Plugin
 
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation 
N/A
 
N/A
 
indented text
Bulleted Lists 
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2

* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
 
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists 
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
 
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
 
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists 
:term|definition
 
Plugin
 
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule 
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