PukiWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features PukiWiki MediaWiki
Version
1.5.1
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements PukiWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
OS independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
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
Datastorage PukiWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
No
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
No
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Yes
Host Blocking
Patch
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Patch
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support PukiWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features PukiWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
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
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Links PukiWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Syntax Features PukiWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Optional
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Usability PukiWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Patch
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Statistics PukiWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Optional
Output PukiWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PukiWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
Extras PukiWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
No
Ticket System
Optional
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PukiWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
''bold''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
'''italic'''
''italic''
Underline Format
%%%underlined%%%
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
N/A
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
- 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 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
:term|definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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