| General Features | Wala Wiki | PageWork | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.1.7
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0.4.8
|
1.5.1
|
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
|
| Last Release Date |
2026-03-14 (3 months ago)
|
2010-07-20 (15 years ago)
|
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
|
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
|
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
|
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
|
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
|
| Author |
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
|
Pitt Murmann
|
PukiWiki Development Team
|
Andreas Gohr
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Public Domain
|
GPLv3
|
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
|
GPL 2
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| Programming Language |
Perl
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Database, Files
|
Files
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free
|
none
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
|
Medium-sized sites
|
One theme, one PukiWiki
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
| System Requirements | Wala Wiki | PageWork | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, *BSD
|
Any
|
OS independent
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
Any that supports basic CGI.
|
Any
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, 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 | DokuWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
diffs
|
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
|
None
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Wala Wiki | PageWork | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
|
Proprietary
|
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | Wala Wiki | PageWork | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
#pukiwiki
|
|||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
4635 ⭐
|
| Common Features | Wala Wiki | PageWork | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| Preview |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Number
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
To current
|
Between all
|
To current
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Wala Wiki | PageWork | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
2
German, English |
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi |
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Detection
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Not available
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Links | Wala Wiki | PageWork | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Unknown
|
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | Wala Wiki | PageWork | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| HTML Tags |
None
|
All
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple
|
complex
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
|
Optional, PHP
|
||
| Content Includes |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Wala Wiki | PageWork | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Wala Wiki | PageWork | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Output | Wala Wiki | PageWork | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | Wala Wiki | PageWork | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| File Attachments |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Keywords
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | Wala Wiki | PageWork | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | Wala Wiki | PageWork | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| Internal Link |
LinkDump, [link dump] |
[[link]] [[link|alternate text]] |
PageNameAsWikiName [[PageName]] [[link text>PageName]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
| External Link |
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3] |
http://www.wikimatrix.org/ |
http://.... [[link text>http://....]] [[interwiki:keyphrase]] [[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
| Headlines |
= headline = |
= L1 = == L2 == === L3 === ==== L4 ==== ===== L5 ===== = L1 == L2 === L3 ==== L4 ===== L5 |
* Level 1 ** Level 2 *** Level 3 |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
| Bold Format |
'''bolded''' |
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong). This is **bold**, too. |
''bold'' |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
''italicized'' |
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized). This is in //italics//, too. |
'''italic''' |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
|
This is __underlined__. |
%%%underlined%%% |
__underlined__ |
| Monospace Format |
monospaced. |
This is %%monospaced%%. |
N/A |
''monospace'' |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
This is --not-- important. |
%%strikethrough%% |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
| Superscript Format |
|
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^ |
N/A |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^} |
N/A |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| 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 |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.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 |
Plugin |
| Text Indentation |
:Block-quoted text. |
> L1 quote >> L2 quote |
N/A |
N/A |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Bullet point * Bullet point |
* one * two ** two alpha ** two beta * three |
- Item 1 -- Item 1.1 - Item 2 |
* 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 |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
: term : definition |
:term|definition |
Plugin |
| Horizontal Rule |
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