PukiWiki vs. Hatta vs. Wala Wiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki DokuWiki
Version
1.5.1
1.6.6
1.1.7
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2026-03-30 (4 months ago)
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Radomir Dopieralski
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL v2
Public Domain
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki DokuWiki
Operating System
OS independent
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Linux, *BSD
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Any that supports basic CGI.
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything 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.
Mercurial
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
Datastorage PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
diffs
None
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
n/a
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Patch
No
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Patch
No
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Optional
Development/Support PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
No
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
No
Yes
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
1
English
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
Email notification
Yes
No
No
Optional
Comments
Plugin
No
Flat
Plugin
Categories
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Optional
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Structured Data
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Links PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
No
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
None
None
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple
simple
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Usability PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Patch
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Patch
No
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
No
Plugin
Output PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
No
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Blogs
Optional
No
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Optional
No
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
LinkDump, [link dump]
[[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]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
= headline =
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
'''bolded'''
**bold**
Italics Format
'''italic'''
//italic//
''italicized''
//italics//
Underline Format
%%%underlined%%%
n/a
__underlined__
Monospace Format
N/A
{{{verbatim}}}
monospaced.
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
n/a
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
N/A
n/a
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
N/A
n/a
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
n/a
Plugin
Text Indentation
N/A
n/a
:Block-quoted text.
N/A
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* list
** sublist
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
n/a
# One
# Two
# Three
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
:term|definition
n/a
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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