ProntoWiki vs. Instiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki
Version
1.0.1
0.30.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2024-05-17 (1 day ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-23 (17 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
Author
Clay Alberty
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Andreas Gohr
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
Ruby's
GPL 2
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
C#
Ruby on Rails
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
general, education
personal, small to medium companies
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki
Operating System
Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS 5+
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Ruby 2.0-2.6
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
No
No
Other
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
None
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
.NET Membership platform
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
Patch
CAPTCHA
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Optional
No
Development/Support ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
478 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
No
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
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
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
No
No
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Links ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Patch
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
None
Optional, PHP
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Patch
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
No
Output ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
No
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Extras ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki
Calendar
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Blogs
Unknown
No
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki
Internal Link
[pagename]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
{title|url}
[another site](http://example.com)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
!, !!, !!!
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
''italics''
_italic_, *italic*
//italics//
'''italic'''
Underline Format
__under__
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
__underlined__
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
`monospace`
''monospace''
N/A
Strikethrough Format
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
<<super>> (using custom tags)
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
N/A
Subscript Format
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
N/A
Images
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
{{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
Aligning Text
available through custom tags
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
Plugin
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
N/A
N/A
Bulleted Lists
+
++
+++
++++
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists
#
##
###
####
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
term
: definition
Plugin
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
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