Wala Wiki vs. PageWork vs. PukiWiki

General Features Wala Wiki PageWork PukiWiki
Version
1.1.7
0.4.8
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2026-03-14 (3 months ago)
2010-07-20 (15 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
Pitt Murmann
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain
GPLv3
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
none
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
Medium-sized sites
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements Wala Wiki PageWork PukiWiki
Operating System
Linux, *BSD
Any
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any that supports basic CGI.
Any
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage Wala Wiki PageWork PukiWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Patch
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
diffs
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam Wala Wiki PageWork PukiWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
Proprietary
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
No
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
Patch
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Wala Wiki PageWork PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wala Wiki PageWork PukiWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wala Wiki PageWork PukiWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
No
Interface Languages
1
English
2
German, English
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
No
No
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Optional
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
No
Links Wala Wiki PageWork PukiWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Optional
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Patch
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
No
Syntax Features Wala Wiki PageWork PukiWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Optional
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
No
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wala Wiki PageWork PukiWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Patch
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics Wala Wiki PageWork PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Output Wala Wiki PageWork PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Themes & Skins
No
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
HTML Export
No
Plugin
No
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wala Wiki PageWork PukiWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
No
Extras Wala Wiki PageWork PukiWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wala Wiki PageWork PukiWiki
Internal Link
LinkDump, [link dump]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
= headline =
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
'''bolded'''
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
''bold''
Italics Format
''italicized''
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
'''italic'''
Underline Format
This is __underlined__.
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
monospaced.
This is %%monospaced%%.
N/A
Strikethrough Format
This is --not-- important.
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
N/A
Subscript Format
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
N/A
Images
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
:Block-quoted text.
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
# Three
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
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