ProntoWiki vs. Instiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Version
1.0.1
0.30.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.5.1
1.32.2
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2024-04-24 (1 day ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
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
2006-08-23 (17 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
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
Clay Alberty
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
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
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
Ruby's
GPL 2
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
C#
Ruby on Rails
PHP
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
general, education
personal, small to medium companies
One theme, one PukiWiki
End Users/Desktop, Education
Software development teams
System Requirements ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Operating System
Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
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
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
Any with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
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.
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
No
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)
No
0
Security/Anti-Spam ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
.NET Membership platform
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Yes
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Optional
No
Plugin
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
Patch
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
478 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
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
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
No
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comments
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Links ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Plugin
Some
Some
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
None
Optional, PHP
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Optional
yes, using Python
Content Includes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Usability ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Output ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Keywords
No
Extras ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
No
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProntoWiki Instiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
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]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
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]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
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
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
''bold''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italics''
_italic_, *italic*
//italics//
'''italic'''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__under__
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
__underlined__
%%%underlined%%%
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
`monospace`
''monospace''
N/A
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%strikethrough%%
<s>strikethrough</s>
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
<<super>> (using custom tags)
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
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
[[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
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
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
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 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
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
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
term
: definition
Plugin
:term|definition
; term : definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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