PukiWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features PukiWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Version
1.5.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.67
Last Release Date
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
personal, small to medium companies
Anyone
System Requirements PukiWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
OS independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
Other Requirements
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage PukiWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
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
No
Yes
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
None
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support PukiWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PukiWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Unknown
Links PukiWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features PukiWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Optional, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability PukiWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
Patch
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics PukiWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output PukiWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PukiWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras PukiWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PukiWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[internal]]
External Link
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
'''italic'''
//italics//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
%%%underlined%%%
__underlined__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
N/A
''monospace''
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
<del>strikethrough</del>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Plugin
Text Indentation
N/A
N/A
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
:term|definition
Plugin
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
--------------------
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove PukiWiki remove DokuWiki remove ikiwiki