WikiCrowd vs. PukiWiki vs. Hatta vs. Wala Wiki vs. alphawiki

General Features WikiCrowd PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki alphawiki
Version
0.0.16
1.5.1
1.6.6
1.1.7
v.20160608
Last Release Date
29 Nov, 2010
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2026-03-29 (4 months ago)
2016-08-06 (9 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-11-29 (15 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
2016-09-10 (9 years ago)
Author
Stas Davydov
PukiWiki Development Team
Radomir Dopieralski
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
marty alain
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL v2
Public Domain
GNU-GPL
Programming Language
PHP, XSL, JavaScript
PHP
Python
Perl
PHP+Javascript
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Free
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Personal, Corporate, Community
One theme, one PukiWiki
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
private users, small teams
System Requirements WikiCrowd PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki alphawiki
Operating System
Any
OS independent
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Linux, *BSD
probably every OS
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Apache
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Any that supports basic CGI.
Apache with PHP support
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.
Mercurial
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
Datastorage WikiCrowd PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki alphawiki
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
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
No
Other
No
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
diffs
None
Security/Anti-Spam WikiCrowd PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki alphawiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
n/a
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
No
Host Blocking
No
Patch
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
No
No
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Patch
No
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
Optional
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
No
Development/Support WikiCrowd PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki alphawiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features WikiCrowd PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki alphawiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
To current
Between all
To current
No
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Special Features WikiCrowd PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki alphawiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
2
English, Russian
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
1
English
1
English
Email notification
No
Yes
No
No
No
Comments
No
Plugin
No
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Namespaces
No
No
Optional
No
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Structured Data
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Links WikiCrowd PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki alphawiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Patch
No
Unknown
No
Page Redirects
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Features WikiCrowd PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki alphawiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
None
None
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Tables
complex
complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Scripting
Plugin, JavaScript
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
JavaScript
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
Content Includes
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Usability WikiCrowd PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki alphawiki
Section Editing
Yes
Patch
No
No
Optional
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Toolbar
No
Patch
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
Statistics WikiCrowd PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki alphawiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Yes
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
No
No
No
No
Output WikiCrowd PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki alphawiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
No
Optional
Auto-TOC
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Raw Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
HTML Export
No
No
No
No
Optional
XML export
No
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WikiCrowd PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki alphawiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Media Revisions
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
No
No
Extras WikiCrowd PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki alphawiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Optional
Image Galleries
No
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Blogs
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
No
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikiCrowd PukiWiki Hatta Wala Wiki alphawiki
Internal Link
@page "Another Wiki Page"
@page[Wiki Page] "Link to Wiki Page"
@page[Wiki Page]
[[Wiki Page or URL]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
LinkDump, [link dump]
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
External Link
@page[http://wikimatrix.org]
@page[http://wikimatrix.org] "It's a link to WikiMatrix"
[[http://wikimatrix.org]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
Headlines
@title Some Title
@subtitle Some Subtitle
@subsubtitle Some Subsubtitle
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
= headline =
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
Bold Format
*bold*
''bold''
**bold**
'''bolded'''
{b I am bold}
Italics Format
//italic//
'''italic'''
//italic//
''italicized''
{i I am italic}
Underline Format
No
%%%underlined%%%
n/a
{u I am underline}
Monospace Format
No
N/A
{{{verbatim}}}
monospaced.
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
Strikethrough Format
No
%%strikethrough%%
n/a
{del I am line-through}
Superscript Format
^superscript^
N/A
n/a
E = mc{sup 2}
Subscript Format
_subscript_
N/A
n/a
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
Images
@img url
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
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"
}}
Aligning Text
No
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
n/a
{center I am centered}
Text Indentation
No
N/A
n/a
:Block-quoted text.
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
Bulleted Lists
@listitem Red
Green
Blue
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* list
** sublist
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
Numbered Lists
No
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
n/a
# One
# Two
# Three
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
Definition Lists
No
:term|definition
n/a
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
Horizontal Rule
No
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