PukiWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. WiGit vs. LynxWiki

General Features PukiWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WiGit LynxWiki
Version
1.5.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.13
0.1
1.3.0.0
Last Release Date
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2008-07-20 (15 years ago)
2013-08-01 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2009-07-09 (14 years ago)
2013-08-29 (10 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Alex Schroeder
Remko Tronçon
J.W. Davidson
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
PHP
C#
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
other
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
personal, small to medium companies
family people, hackers
Private users
small organization to enterprise
System Requirements PukiWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WiGit LynxWiki
Operating System
OS independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
IIS7 or IIS8
Other Requirements
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Writable data directory
Git
IronPython
Datastorage PukiWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WiGit LynxWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
No
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
None
No
Git repositories
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WiGit LynxWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
MS Membership and Roles
Host Blocking
Patch
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
No
No
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support PukiWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WiGit LynxWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
67 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features PukiWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WiGit LynxWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Special Features PukiWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WiGit LynxWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links PukiWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WiGit LynxWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features PukiWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WiGit LynxWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Some
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Optional, PHP
Perl
IronPython
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Usability PukiWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WiGit LynxWiki
Section Editing
Patch
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Plugin
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Statistics PukiWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WiGit LynxWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Output PukiWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WiGit LynxWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PukiWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WiGit LynxWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras PukiWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WiGit LynxWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Optional
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PukiWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse WiGit LynxWiki
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[InternalLink]
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
External Link
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
"External link":http://externallink.com
http://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
Headlines
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
h1. Headline
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*Bold*
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
'''italic'''
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_Italics_
_italics_
Underline Format
%%%underlined%%%
__underlined__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
+underlined+
+underlined+
Monospace Format
N/A
''monospace''
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
@monospace@
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
<del>strikethrough</del>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
-strikethrough-
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^superscript^
superscript^234^
Subscript Format
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
~subscript~
water: H~2~O
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}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
!image.jpg!
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg
Aligning Text
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Plugin
no example known
>Right-aligned
N/A
Text Indentation
N/A
N/A
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
N/A
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
* Bulleted
* List
** Sublist
* first bullet (8 spaces)
* first sub item bullet
* second item
Numbered Lists
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Numbered
# List
## Sublist
1. first numbered item
1. second item
Definition Lists
:term|definition
Plugin
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
N/A
Horizontal Rule
--------------------
----
Depending on plugins:
----
----
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