PukiWiki vs. mobiki vs. Wala Wiki vs. alphawiki

General Features PukiWiki mobiki Wala Wiki alphawiki
Version
1.5.1
2016-06-26
1.1.7
v.20160608
Last Release Date
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2016-06-26 (10 years ago)
2026-03-30 (4 months ago)
2016-08-06 (9 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2016-06-26 (10 years ago)
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
2016-09-10 (9 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Martin D�ring
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
marty alain
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
MIT
Public Domain
GNU-GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
PHP+Javascript
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
Text centric websites and mobile use
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
private users, small teams
System Requirements PukiWiki mobiki Wala Wiki alphawiki
Operating System
OS independent
any
Linux, *BSD
probably every OS
Root Access
No
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
any
Any that supports basic 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.
PHP 5.4+
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
Datastorage PukiWiki mobiki Wala Wiki alphawiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
diffs
None
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki mobiki Wala Wiki alphawiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
No
Host Blocking
Patch
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Patch
No
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support PukiWiki mobiki Wala Wiki alphawiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PukiWiki mobiki Wala Wiki alphawiki
Preview
Yes
No
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
No
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
No
To current
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
No
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki mobiki Wala Wiki alphawiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
0
1
English
1
English
Email notification
Yes
No
No
No
Comments
Plugin
No
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Namespaces
No
No
No
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
No
Unknown
No
Structured Data
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Links PukiWiki mobiki Wala Wiki alphawiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
No
Unknown
No
Page Redirects
No
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Features PukiWiki mobiki Wala Wiki alphawiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
None
None
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Tables
complex
none
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
No
No
Footnotes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Quoting
Optional
No
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Unknown
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
Content Includes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Usability PukiWiki mobiki Wala Wiki alphawiki
Section Editing
Patch
No
No
Optional
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
Toolbar
Patch
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
No
Optional
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Optional
Statistics PukiWiki mobiki Wala Wiki alphawiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
No
No
Orphaned Pages
No
No
No
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
No
No
No
Output PukiWiki mobiki Wala Wiki alphawiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Optional
Auto-TOC
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
HTML Export
No
No
No
Optional
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PukiWiki mobiki Wala Wiki alphawiki
File Attachments
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
No
No
Extras PukiWiki mobiki Wala Wiki alphawiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Unknown
Optional
Image Galleries
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Blogs
Optional
No
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PukiWiki mobiki Wala Wiki alphawiki
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[Internal Link]
LinkDump, [link dump]
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]]
http://mobiki.datenbrei.de
[Text|http://mobiki.datenbrei.de]
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
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
!Headline
= headline =
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
Bold Format
''bold''
'''bold'''
'''bolded'''
{b I am bold}
Italics Format
'''italic'''
''italics''
''italicized''
{i I am italic}
Underline Format
%%%underlined%%%
n/a
{u I am underline}
Monospace Format
N/A
n/a
monospaced.
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
n/a
{del I am line-through}
Superscript Format
N/A
n/a
E = mc{sup 2}
Subscript Format
N/A
n/a
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
http://image.png
image:example.jpg
images:imagefolder
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
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
___
aligned text
___
{center I am centered}
Text Indentation
N/A
n/a
:Block-quoted text.
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
- One
- Two
* One
* Two
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
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
0. One
0. Two
0. Three
# One
# Two
# Three
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

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