PukiWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki
Version
1.5.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
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
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
personal, small to medium companies
Any
System Requirements PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
OS independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, 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.
various opt. helpers
Datastorage PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
No
Yes
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
None
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Patch
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
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
Patch
Links PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Optional, PHP
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
Patch
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Extras PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
Yes
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Optional
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link 
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
 
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link 
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]

[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
 
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines 
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
 
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
 
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format 
''bold''
 
**bold**
 
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format 
'''italic'''
 
//italics//
 
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format 
%%%underlined%%%
 
__underlined__
 
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format 
N/A
 
''monospace''
 
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format 
%%strikethrough%%
 
<del>strikethrough</del>
 
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format 
N/A
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format 
N/A
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
<sub>below</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}}
 
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text 
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
 
Plugin
 
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>
Text Indentation 
N/A
 
N/A
 
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level
Bulleted Lists 
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2

* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
 
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists 
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
 
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
 
# list
Definition Lists 
:term|definition
 
Plugin
 
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule 
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