PukiWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Version
1.5.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2005-06-15 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2010-04-04 (14 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL 2
GPL
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
small + medium sites, development teams
System Requirements PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Operating System
OS independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
none
none
Datastorage PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Plugin
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
None
No
no
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Patch
Development/Support PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
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
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Optional, PHP
Optional
optional
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
Patch
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Analysis
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Output PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Optional
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Optional
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Extras PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
'''italic'''
//italics//
''italic''
''ialic text''
Underline Format
%%%underlined%%%
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
optional or via css
Monospace Format
N/A
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
optional or via css
Superscript Format
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
optional or via css
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}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
optional or via css
Text Indentation
N/A
N/A
: indented line
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered 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 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Definition Lists
:term|definition
Plugin
; term : definition
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
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