WikiCrowd vs. alphawiki vs. Wala Wiki vs. PukiWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features WikiCrowd alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki DokuWiki
Version
0.0.16
v.20160608
1.1.7
1.5.1
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
29 Nov, 2010
2016-08-06 (9 years ago)
2026-03-14 (3 months ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
Last Update here
2010-11-29 (15 years ago)
2016-09-10 (9 years ago)
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
Author
Stas Davydov
marty alain
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
PukiWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GNU-GPL
Public Domain
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP, XSL, JavaScript
PHP+Javascript
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Personal, Corporate, Community
private users, small teams
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
One theme, one PukiWiki
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements WikiCrowd alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Any
probably every OS
Linux, *BSD
OS independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
Yes
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache
Apache with PHP support
Any that supports basic CGI.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
PHP 5.2 or later, Apache mod_rewrite, iconv
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage WikiCrowd alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
No
Other
No
None
diffs
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
None
Security/Anti-Spam WikiCrowd alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
No
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
No
Optional
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
No
No
Patch
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Optional
Development/Support WikiCrowd alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
4635 ⭐
Common Features WikiCrowd alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki DokuWiki
Preview
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
No
To current
To current
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikiCrowd alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
2
English, Russian
1
English
1
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
No
Yes
Optional
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
No
Unknown
Optional
No
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Not available
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Links WikiCrowd alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Page Redirects
No
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Syntax Features WikiCrowd alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
None
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple
complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Plugin, JavaScript
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability WikiCrowd alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Optional
No
Patch
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
No
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics WikiCrowd alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Output WikiCrowd alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files WikiCrowd alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
No
No
Filenames only
Extras WikiCrowd alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
No
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
Blogs
No
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples WikiCrowd alphawiki Wala Wiki PukiWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
@page "Another Wiki Page"
@page[Wiki Page] "Link to Wiki Page"
@page[Wiki Page]
[[Wiki Page or URL]]
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
LinkDump, [link dump]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
@page[http://wikimatrix.org]
@page[http://wikimatrix.org] "It's a link to WikiMatrix"
[[http://wikimatrix.org]]
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
@title Some Title
@subtitle Some Subtitle
@subsubtitle Some Subsubtitle
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
= headline =
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
*bold*
{b I am bold}
'''bolded'''
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
{i I am italic}
''italicized''
'''italic'''
//italics//
Underline Format
No
{u I am underline}
%%%underlined%%%
__underlined__
Monospace Format
No
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
monospaced.
N/A
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
No
{del I am line-through}
%%strikethrough%%
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
E = mc{sup 2}
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
_subscript_
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
@img url
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
#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
No
{center I am centered}
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Plugin
Text Indentation
No
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
:Block-quoted text.
N/A
N/A
Bulleted Lists
@listitem Red
Green
Blue
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
No
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
# One
# Two
# Three
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
No
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
:term|definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
No
{hr}
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