ProWiki vs. TWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Foswiki vs. PmWiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features ProWiki TWiki DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Version
2.0.045
TWiki-6.1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.1.8
2.3.33
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2006-10-13 (17 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
2024-04-20 (6 days ago)
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (14 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2024-04-21 (5 days ago)
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Andreas Gohr
Foswiki Community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
$0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
All
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements ProWiki TWiki DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Operating System
Unix / Linux
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage ProWiki TWiki DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
None
caching of content into database using plugins
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki TWiki DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Patch
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Development/Support ProWiki TWiki DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
97 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProWiki TWiki DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProWiki TWiki DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
No
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Structured Data
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Links ProWiki TWiki DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features ProWiki TWiki DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
All
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Usability ProWiki TWiki DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics ProWiki TWiki DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Output ProWiki TWiki DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki TWiki DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras ProWiki TWiki DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki TWiki DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
---+ 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
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
'''italic'''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
N/A
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
N/A
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
N/A
Images
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists
# numbered list
## numbered list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
---
----
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