PukiWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. UseMod

General Features PukiWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Version
1.5.1
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
1.2.2
Last Release Date
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Clifford Adams
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
Perl
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
System Requirements PukiWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Operating System
OS independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage PukiWiki DokuWiki UseMod
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 UseMod
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Patch
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Patch
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support PukiWiki DokuWiki UseMod
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4629 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PukiWiki DokuWiki UseMod
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
No
Special Features PukiWiki DokuWiki UseMod
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
0
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
No
Categories
No
Plugin
Unknown
Namespaces
No
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Unknown
Links PukiWiki DokuWiki UseMod
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
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
No
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PukiWiki DokuWiki UseMod
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Optional
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
No
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Optional, PHP
None
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Usability PukiWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Section Editing
Patch
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics PukiWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Patch
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output PukiWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PukiWiki DokuWiki UseMod
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Extras PukiWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PukiWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
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 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
'''italic'''
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
%%%underlined%%%
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
N/A
''monospace''
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
<del>strikethrough</del>
N/A
Superscript Format
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
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://url.com/pic.gif
Aligning Text
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Plugin
N/A
Text Indentation
N/A
N/A
: indented
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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
:term|definition
Plugin
;Term:Definition
Horizontal Rule
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