PukiWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Version
1.5.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
5.1.21
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (11 days ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (10 days ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL 2
GPL2+
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
personal, small to medium companies
All
Individuals, private, small groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
OS independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
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. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Not required (optional backends available)
Any 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
A common browser
none
Datastorage PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
optional extensions available
Yes
Host Blocking
Patch
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
No
Development/Support PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
Optional
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Usability PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Output PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Keywords
Extras PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
'''bold'''
''bold''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
'''italic'''
//italics//
''italic''
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
%%%underlined%%%
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
N/A
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
~~subscript~~
<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}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
N/A
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
:term|definition
Plugin
: term : definition
; term
: description
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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