PukiWiki vs. TWiki

General Features PukiWiki TWiki
Version
1.5.1
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2016-03-07 (9 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (9 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements PukiWiki TWiki
Operating System
OS independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
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 TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Patch
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
Patch
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Development/Support PukiWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features PukiWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Optional
Structured Data
No
Yes
Links PukiWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Syntax Features PukiWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Usability PukiWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Patch
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Patch
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Statistics PukiWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Output PukiWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PukiWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Extras PukiWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Optional
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PukiWiki TWiki
Internal Link 
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
 
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link 
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]

http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines 
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
 
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format 
''bold''
 
*bold*
Italics Format 
'''italic'''
 
_italic_
Underline Format 
%%%underlined%%%
 
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format 
N/A
 
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format 
%%strikethrough%%
 
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format 
N/A
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format 
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
 
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text 
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
 
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation 
N/A
 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists 
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2

* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists 
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
 
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists 
:term|definition
 
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule 
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