PukiWiki vs. TWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features PukiWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Version
1.5.1
TWiki-6.1.0
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2016-03-07 (9 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (9 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements PukiWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
OS independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any 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
none
Datastorage PukiWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
Host Blocking
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Patch
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support PukiWiki TWiki MediaWiki
# 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 TWiki MediaWiki
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 TWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
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
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Optional
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Yes
Plugin
Links PukiWiki TWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PukiWiki TWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability PukiWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Patch
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics PukiWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Optional
Output PukiWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Plugin
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PukiWiki TWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Extras PukiWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Optional
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PukiWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link 
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
 
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
 
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link 
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]

http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
 
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines 
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
 
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6

==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format 
''bold''
 
*bold*

'''bold'''
Italics Format 
'''italic'''
 
_italic_
 
''italic''
Underline Format 
%%%underlined%%%
 
<u>underline</u>
 
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format 
N/A
 
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>

<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format 
%%strikethrough%%
 
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
 
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format 
N/A
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format 
N/A
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
<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
 
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text 
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
 
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
 
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation 
N/A
 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>

: indented line
Bulleted Lists 
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2

* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists 
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
 
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
 
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists 
:term|definition
 
$ Term: Definition
 
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule 
--------------------
 
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