PukiWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TracWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Version
1.5.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
0.11.5
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Edgewall Software
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL 2
GPL
Modified BSD license
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Python
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Software development teams
all
System Requirements PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
OS independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
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
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
None
No
0
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
Development/Support PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
Common Features PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
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
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Optional, PHP
Optional
yes, using Python
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Usability PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Patch
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Statistics PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Output PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Ticket System
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PukiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
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://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
'''italic'''
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
%%%underlined%%%
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
N/A
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
~~strike-through~~
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
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]]
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
N/A
N/A
: indented line
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted 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
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
+ 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
:term|definition
Plugin
; term : definition
term::
definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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