Wikia vs. PmWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features Wikia PmWiki PhpWiki
Version
N/A
2.3.32
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
N/A
2024-03-23 (6 days ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
2009-04-03 (14 years ago)
Author
Wikia, Inc.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
N/A
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All users
All
Any
Hosting Features Wikia PmWiki PhpWiki
Storage Quota
unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
unlimited
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
none
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Wikia PmWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
N/A
none
various opt. helpers
Datastorage Wikia PmWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
Yes
MySQL
N/A
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Yes
Oracle
N/A
No
Yes
SQLite
N/A
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
Yes
RCS
N/A
Plugin
Yes
Other
N/A
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam Wikia PmWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
Development/Support Wikia PmWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
No
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wikia PmWiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wikia PmWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
0
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Links Wikia PmWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wikia PmWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Optional
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Optional
No
No
BBCode Support
Optional
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Yes
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Usability Wikia PmWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wikia PmWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output Wikia PmWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Wikia PmWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Extras Wikia PmWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wikia PmWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>below</sub>
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[ 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% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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