DokuWiki vs. ProWiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features DokuWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.0.045
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2006-10-13 (17 years ago)
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-11-28 (14 years ago)
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Helmut Leitner
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements DokuWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix / Linux
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage DokuWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Other
None
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
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
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
No
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
No
No
Links DokuWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Patch
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
Output DokuWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
Extras DokuWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Optional
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki ProWiki PukiWiki
Internal Link 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
 
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
 
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link 
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
 
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
 
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines 
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
 
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
 
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format 
**bold**
 
'''bold'''
 
''bold''
Italics Format 
//italics//
 
''italic''
 
'''italic'''
Underline Format 
__underlined__
 
<u>underlined</u>
 
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format 
''monospace''
 
<tt>monospace</tt>
 
N/A
Strikethrough Format 
<del>strikethrough</del>
 
[[strike]strikethrough text]
 
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
<sup>text</sup>
 
N/A
Subscript Format 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
<sub>text</sub>
 
N/A
Images 
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
 
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]

#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text 
Plugin
 
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
 
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation 
N/A
 
: indented line
:: indented line
 
N/A
Bulleted Lists 
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
 
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
 
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists 
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
 
# numbered list
## numbered list
 
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists 
Plugin
 
; term: definition
 
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule 
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