ButorWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. GWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features ButorWiki DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Version
2.2.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.4.0
2.11.0
1.9.11
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.3.33
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2007-03-08 (17 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2024-04-20 (9 days ago)
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-07-30 (16 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2024-04-21 (8 days ago)
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
Author
Aiman Sawan
Andreas Gohr
Roger Rene Kommer
Apache Software Foundation
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL 2
Apache License, Version 2.0
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Java
Java
Python
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, Files
Database, Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
SMB
personal, small to medium companies
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
all
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Any
All
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements ButorWiki DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Operating System
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
All Java Servlet Container, included
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Tomcat 4.1 +
Java 1.8+
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
None
various opt. helpers
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage ButorWiki DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
None
Google Datastore
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam ButorWiki DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal and external with adapter
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
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
Host Blocking
Unknown
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Patch
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Patch
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
Development/Support ButorWiki DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
4 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ButorWiki DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ButorWiki DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
Interface Languages
1
English
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
2
German, English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
No
Links ButorWiki DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features ButorWiki DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Optional
Some
Some
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Internal Comments
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Internal Macros
Optional, PHP
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, see comment ---------------->
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability ButorWiki DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics ButorWiki DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output ButorWiki DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files ButorWiki DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
No
Filenames only
No
Extras ButorWiki DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ButorWiki DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Internal Link
<a href="..."></a>
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
<a href="..."></a>
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.com]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
...
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
<b>Bold</b>
**bold**
*Bold Format*
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
<i>Italics</i>
//italics//
_Italic format_
''italics''
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
'''italic'''
Underline Format
<u>Underline</u>
__underlined__
+Unterlined+
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{Monospace}}
{{monospace}}
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
N/A
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
-StrikeThrough-
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
N/A
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript~
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
N/A
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
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
Aligning Text
Plugin
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
%%(text-align: right) text %%
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%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
Text Indentation
N/A
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
indented text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
;term:definition
term:: definition
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
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