alphawiki vs. PmWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. PageWork vs. Wala Wiki vs. LionWiki

General Features alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork Wala Wiki LionWiki
Version
v.20160608
2.7.4
1.5.1
0.4.8
1.1.7
3.2.4
Last Release Date
2016-08-06 (9 years ago)
2026-07-31 (2 days ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2010-07-20 (16 years ago)
2026-03-02 (5 months ago)
2010-09-20 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-09-10 (9 years ago)
2026-07-31 (2 days ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
2010-10-01 (15 years ago)
Author
marty alain
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
PukiWiki Development Team
Pitt Murmann
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
Adam Živnéř
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU-GPL
GPL2+
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPLv3
Public Domain
GPL v2
Programming Language
PHP+Javascript
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Database, Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
none
Free
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users, small teams
All
One theme, one PukiWiki
Medium-sized sites
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
advanced users, minimalists
System Requirements alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork Wala Wiki LionWiki
Operating System
probably every OS
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
Any
Linux, *BSD
All PHP supported
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any
Any that supports basic CGI.
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
Other Requirements
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
Datastorage alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork Wala Wiki LionWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
Patch
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Other
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
diffs
Security/Anti-Spam alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork Wala Wiki LionWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
No
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Proprietary
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Patch
No
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
No
No
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Patch
No
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
Development/Support alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork Wala Wiki LionWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork Wala Wiki LionWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
To current
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork Wala Wiki LionWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
No
No
Interface Languages
1
English
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
2
German, English
1
English
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Links alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork Wala Wiki LionWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Patch
No
Unknown
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork Wala Wiki LionWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
All
None
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple
simple
complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
JavaScript (plugin)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Usability alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork Wala Wiki LionWiki
Section Editing
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Optional
Patch
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Statistics alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork Wala Wiki LionWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Output alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork Wala Wiki LionWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
HTML Export
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork Wala Wiki LionWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Keywords
No
No
Extras alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork Wala Wiki LionWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples alphawiki PmWiki PukiWiki PageWork Wala Wiki LionWiki
Internal Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
LinkDump, [link dump]
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
External Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
Headlines
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
= headline =
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
Bold Format
{b I am bold}
'''bold'''
''bold''
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
'''bolded'''
'''bold''
Italics Format
{i I am italic}
''italic''
'''italic'''
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
''italicized''
''italics''
Underline Format
{u I am underline}
{+underlined+}
%%%underlined%%%
This is __underlined__.
'__underline__'
Monospace Format
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
@@monospace@@
N/A
This is %%monospaced%%.
monospaced.
Strikethrough Format
{del I am line-through}
{-strikethrough-}
%%strikethrough%%
This is --not-- important.
'--strikethrough--'
Superscript Format
E = mc{sup 2}
'^superscript^'
N/A
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
'_subscript_'
N/A
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
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"
}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
[path_to_img.jpg]
Aligning Text
{center I am centered}
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
:Block-quoted text.
Bulleted Lists
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
Numbered Lists
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
# One
# Two
# Three
# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
Definition Lists
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
: term : definition
:term|definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
{hr}
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