PukiWiki vs. PmWiki vs. PageWork

General Features PukiWiki PmWiki PageWork
Version
1.5.1
2.7.4
0.4.8
Last Release Date
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2026-07-31 (22 days ago)
2010-07-20 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2026-07-31 (22 days ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Pitt Murmann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL2+
GPLv3
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
All
Medium-sized sites
System Requirements PukiWiki PmWiki PageWork
Operating System
OS independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Any
Other Requirements
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
none
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage PukiWiki PmWiki PageWork
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
Patch
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki PmWiki PageWork
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Proprietary
Host Blocking
Patch
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
Development/Support PukiWiki PmWiki PageWork
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PukiWiki PmWiki PageWork
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 PmWiki PageWork
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
German, English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
No
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
Links PukiWiki PmWiki PageWork
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PukiWiki PmWiki PageWork
HTML Tags
Plugin
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability PukiWiki PmWiki PageWork
Section Editing
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Patch
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics PukiWiki PmWiki PageWork
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output PukiWiki PmWiki PageWork
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
XML export
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PukiWiki PmWiki PageWork
File Attachments
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras PukiWiki PmWiki PageWork
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PukiWiki PmWiki PageWork
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
External Link
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
Headlines
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
Bold Format
''bold''
'''bold'''
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
Italics Format
'''italic'''
''italic''
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
Underline Format
%%%underlined%%%
{+underlined+}
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
N/A
@@monospace@@
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
{-strikethrough-}
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
N/A
'^superscript^'
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
N/A
'_subscript_'
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
Aligning Text
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
Numbered Lists
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
Definition Lists
:term|definition
: term : definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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