PukiWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Foswiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features PukiWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Version
1.5.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.33
2.1.8
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-04-20 (5 days ago)
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (4 days ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Foswiki Community
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Any
System Requirements PukiWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Operating System
OS independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
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.
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
various opt. helpers
Datastorage PukiWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
caching of content into database using plugins
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Development/Support PukiWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
97 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PukiWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 TWiki PmWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Links PukiWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PukiWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
All
Plugin
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability PukiWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics PukiWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output PukiWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PukiWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras PukiWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PukiWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
*bold*
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
'''italic'''
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
_italic_
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
%%%underlined%%%
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
N/A
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<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}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
[ 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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
N/A
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
;: 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
* 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
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
:term|definition
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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