WikkaWiki vs. PmWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. Wiclear

General Features WikkaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
Version
1.4.2
2.6.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.0
Last Release Date
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2026-05-16 (25 days ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2026-05-16 (25 days ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
David Jobet
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
GPL2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
All
Any
private users
System Requirements WikkaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
various opt. helpers
MySql
Datastorage WikkaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam WikkaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
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
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support WikkaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features WikkaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikkaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
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
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
Email notification
Patch
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Links WikkaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Patch
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features WikkaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins, templates, PHP
Not at the moment
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability WikkaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Access Keys
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Patch
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics WikkaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Patch
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Patch
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output WikkaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
XML export
Patch
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WikkaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
No
Extras WikkaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
Internal Link
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[Title]
External Link
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[Title|http://url.to/]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
__bold__
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
'^superscript^'
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
'_subscript_'
<sub>below</sub>
Images
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
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
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
%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
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
or
- list
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
Numbered Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
: term : definition
Term:<def>
def
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
Horizontal Rule
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