PukiWiki vs. Foswiki vs. alphawiki

General Features PukiWiki Foswiki alphawiki
Version
1.5.1
2.1.11
v.20160608
Last Release Date
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2016-08-06 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2016-09-10 (9 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Foswiki Community
marty alain
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
GNU-GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP+Javascript
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
private users, small teams
System Requirements PukiWiki Foswiki alphawiki
Operating System
OS independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
probably every OS
Root Access
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache with PHP support
Other Requirements
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage PukiWiki Foswiki alphawiki
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
Yes
No
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
caching of content into database using plugins
None
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki Foswiki alphawiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
No
Host Blocking
Patch
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Patch
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support PukiWiki Foswiki alphawiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PukiWiki Foswiki alphawiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki Foswiki alphawiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Plugin
Unknown
Namespaces
No
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
No
Structured Data
No
Yes
Unknown
Links PukiWiki Foswiki alphawiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Features PukiWiki Foswiki alphawiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Unknown
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
No
Usability PukiWiki Foswiki alphawiki
Section Editing
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Patch
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Optional
Statistics PukiWiki Foswiki alphawiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Output PukiWiki Foswiki alphawiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Optional
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Optional
HTML Export
No
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PukiWiki Foswiki alphawiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras PukiWiki Foswiki alphawiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Optional
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PukiWiki Foswiki alphawiki
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
External Link
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
Headlines
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
Bold Format
''bold''
*bold*
{b I am bold}
Italics Format
'''italic'''
_italic_
{i I am italic}
Underline Format
%%%underlined%%%
<u>underline</u>
{u I am underline}
Monospace Format
N/A
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{del I am line-through}
Superscript Format
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
E = mc{sup 2}
Subscript Format
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
Images
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
Aligning Text
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{center I am centered}
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
Numbered Lists
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
Definition Lists
:term|definition
$ Term: Definition
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
Horizontal Rule
--------------------
---
{hr}
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