PukiWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. TWiki

General Features PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Version
1.5.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
phpwiki-1.3.14
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
personal, small to medium companies
Any
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Operating System
OS independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
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
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Yes
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
None
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Patch
Plugin
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Development/Support PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Links PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
plugins, templates, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Patch
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PukiWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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 ]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*bold*
Italics Format
'''italic'''
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italic_
Underline Format
%%%underlined%%%
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
N/A
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>striked through</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Plugin
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
N/A
N/A
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
:term|definition
Plugin
Term:<def>
def
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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