WikiCrowd vs. DokuWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. Wala Wiki vs. Zim

General Features WikiCrowd DokuWiki PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
Version
0.0.16
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
1.5.1
1.1.7
0.56
Last Release Date
29 Nov, 2010
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2026-03-24 (5 months ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-11-29 (15 years ago)
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
Author
Stas Davydov
Andreas Gohr
PukiWiki Development Team
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL 2
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Public Domain
GPL
Programming Language
PHP, XSL, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Free
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Personal, Corporate, Community
personal, small to medium companies
One theme, one PukiWiki
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
Private users, small teams
System Requirements WikiCrowd DokuWiki PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
Operating System
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
Linux, *BSD
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any that supports basic CGI.
None
Other Requirements
PHP 5.2 or later, Apache mod_rewrite, iconv
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 WikiCrowd DokuWiki PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
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
Plugin
Other
No
None
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
diffs
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam WikiCrowd DokuWiki PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
No
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
File permissions
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
No
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Patch
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support WikiCrowd DokuWiki PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4707 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features WikiCrowd DokuWiki PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
To current
To current
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features WikiCrowd DokuWiki PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
2
English, Russian
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
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
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Comments
No
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
No
Categories
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Links WikiCrowd DokuWiki PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Features WikiCrowd DokuWiki PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Plugin
None
None
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
complex
simple
none
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
Plugin, JavaScript
Optional, PHP
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
None
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Usability WikiCrowd DokuWiki PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics WikiCrowd DokuWiki PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Output WikiCrowd DokuWiki PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WikiCrowd DokuWiki PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Media Revisions
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
No
No
Extras WikiCrowd DokuWiki PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikiCrowd DokuWiki PukiWiki Wala Wiki Zim
Internal Link
@page "Another Wiki Page"
@page[Wiki Page] "Link to Wiki Page"
@page[Wiki Page]
[[Wiki Page or URL]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
LinkDump, [link dump]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
@page[http://wikimatrix.org]
@page[http://wikimatrix.org] "It's a link to WikiMatrix"
[[http://wikimatrix.org]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
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
@title Some Title
@subtitle Some Subtitle
@subsubtitle Some Subsubtitle
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
= headline =
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
''bold''
'''bolded'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
'''italic'''
''italicized''
//italic//
Underline Format
No
__underlined__
%%%underlined%%%
__underline__
Monospace Format
No
''monospace''
N/A
monospaced.
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
No
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%strikethrough%%
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
N/A
^{sup}
Subscript Format
_subscript_
<sub>subscript</sub>
N/A
_{sub}
Images
@img url
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
#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
No
Plugin
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
not implemented
Text Indentation
No
N/A
N/A
:Block-quoted text.
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
@listitem Red
Green
Blue
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
No
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
# One
# Two
# Three
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
No
Plugin
:term|definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
No
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