PmWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. MojoMojo

General Features PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MojoMojo
Version
2.3.32
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
1.02
Last Release Date
2024-03-23 (5 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2010-08-29 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2010-09-01 (13 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Marcus Ramberg et al. (open-source)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL 2
GPL
Artistic License
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
FREE
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Wiki, CMS, Blog users
System Requirements PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MojoMojo
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any OS that runs Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Has its own server; can run with any web server
Other Requirements
none
none
Catalyst
Datastorage PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MojoMojo
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
MySQL
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Patch
SQLite
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MojoMojo
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Yes
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
Unknown
Development/Support PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MojoMojo
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MojoMojo
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MojoMojo
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
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
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
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
11
Catalan, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MojoMojo
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MojoMojo
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional, PHP
Optional
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MojoMojo
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MojoMojo
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Output PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MojoMojo
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MojoMojo
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MojoMojo
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MojoMojo
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[another page]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
Markdown:
[Link text](http://example.com)

Textile:
"link text":http://example.com
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Mardown:
#Heading 1

Textile:
h1. Heading 1
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
Markdown: **bold**

Textile: *bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
_italics_
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
Textile: _underline_
Markdown: use HTML
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
Markdown:
`command line example`

Textile:
@command line example@
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
Textile:
normal text -striked- normal text
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Textile: ^superscript^
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Textile: ~subscript~
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Markdown:
![alt text](/image/path "title text")

Textile:
!http://example.com/image.png!
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
Textile:
< right
> left
= center
<> justify
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
: indented line
Textile:
> text
Bulleted Lists
* 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
* an item
* another item
Numbered Lists
# 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
# item 1
# item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Plugin
; term : definition
Textile:
dl. title:data goes here
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
<hr />
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