DokuWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.5.1
1.32.2
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
PukiWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
One theme, one PukiWiki
End Users/Desktop, Education
Software development teams
System Requirements DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
None
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
No
0
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Yes
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Plugin
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Patch
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
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
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
141
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Links DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Optional
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Usability DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Patch
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Output DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
No
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Keywords
No
Extras DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
**bold**
''bold''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
'''italic'''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
%%%underlined%%%
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
N/A
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%strikethrough%%
<s>strikethrough</s>
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
Plugin
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
N/A
N/A
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
Plugin
:term|definition
; term : definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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