DokuWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. Wiclear

General Features DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.5.1
1.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2005-06-15 (18 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
2007-08-06 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2010-04-04 (14 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
2007-09-16 (16 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
PukiWiki Development Team
David Jobet
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Public Domain (!)
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
small + medium sites, development teams
Any
One theme, one PukiWiki
private users
System Requirements DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache
Other Requirements
none
various opt. helpers
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
MySql
Datastorage DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Text Files
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Other
None
no
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Patch
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
#phpwiki
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Patch
No
No
No
Interface Languages
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Unknown
Links DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Syntax Features DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
Optional
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
optional
plugins, templates, PHP
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Not at the moment
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Patch
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Patch
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Patch
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Statistics DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Recent Changes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Output DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Optional
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
XML export
No
Optional
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
No
No
Extras DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki Wiclear
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[Title]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[Title|http://url.to/]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
''bold''
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
''ialic text''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
'''italic'''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
optional or via css
<u>underlined</u>
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
''monospace''
==monospaced text==
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


N/A
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
optional or via css
<strike>striked through</strike>
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript text^^
<sup>above</sup>
N/A
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
optional or via css
<sub>below</sub>
N/A
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[link to the image.jpg]
[ 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
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
Aligning Text
Plugin
optional or via css
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
N/A
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* list
or
- list
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

# list
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
Definition Lists
Plugin
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Term:<def>
def
:term|definition
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
Horizontal Rule
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