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

General Features PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Version
1.5.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.32
5.1.21
1.32.2
16.2.0
Last Release Date
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-23 (26 days ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (25 days ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-03-24 (25 days ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-03-25 (24 days 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.
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL 2
GPL2+
BSD
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
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
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Operating System
OS independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
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
Servlet 3.1+
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
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
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
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
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
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Patch
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
Development/Support PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
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
N/A
Common Features PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
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
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
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
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
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Statistics PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Output PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Keywords
Contents
Extras PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples PukiWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki XWiki
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]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
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]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
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====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
'''bold'''
''bold''
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
'''italic'''
//italics//
''italic''
//italic//
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
%%%underlined%%%
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
N/A
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
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]]
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
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>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
N/A
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
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
* List
** list
*** list
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
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
:term|definition
Plugin
: term : definition
; term
: description
; term : definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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