PukiWiki vs. Wala Wiki vs. Zim

General Features PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
Version
1.5.1
1.1.7
0.56
Last Release Date
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2026-03-24 (5 months ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Public Domain
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
Private users, small teams
System Requirements PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
Operating System
OS independent
Linux, *BSD
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any that supports basic CGI.
None
Other Requirements
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
diffs
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
No
No
ACL
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
File permissions
Host Blocking
Patch
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Patch
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
Preview
Yes
No
No
Minor Changes
No
No
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
1
English
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
No
No
Comments
Plugin
Flat
No
Categories
No
Optional
Plugin
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
No
Unknown
No
Links PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Features PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
HTML Tags
Plugin
None
None
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
none
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
No
Footnotes
Yes
No
No
Quoting
Optional
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
No
No
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
None
Content Includes
Plugin
No
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
No
Usability PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
Section Editing
Patch
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Patch
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Output PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
No
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
No
Optional
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
File Attachments
Plugin
No
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
No
Extras PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Unknown
No
Blogs
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
Optional
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
LinkDump, [link dump]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
= headline =
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
''bold''
'''bolded'''
**bold**
Italics Format
'''italic'''
''italicized''
//italic//
Underline Format
%%%underlined%%%
__underline__
Monospace Format
N/A
monospaced.
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
N/A
^{sup}
Subscript Format
N/A
_{sub}
Images
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
not implemented
Text Indentation
N/A
:Block-quoted text.
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
# One
# Two
# Three
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
:term|definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
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not implemented
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