alphawiki vs. ProWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features alphawiki ProWiki PmWiki
Version
v.20160608
2.0.045
2.7.3
Last Release Date
2016-08-06 (9 years ago)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2026-07-26 (3 days ago)
Last Update here
2016-09-10 (9 years ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2026-07-26 (3 days ago)
Author
marty alain
Helmut Leitner
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU-GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
PHP+Javascript
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users, small teams
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
All
System Requirements alphawiki ProWiki PmWiki
Operating System
probably every OS
Unix / Linux
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
Yes
No
No
Webserver
Apache with PHP support
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
none
none
Datastorage alphawiki ProWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam alphawiki ProWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Development/Support alphawiki ProWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features alphawiki ProWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features alphawiki ProWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
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
Email notification
No
Yes
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Yes
Links alphawiki ProWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features alphawiki ProWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Yes
Scripting
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
Usability alphawiki ProWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics alphawiki ProWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Output alphawiki ProWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Optional
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files alphawiki ProWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
No
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Extras alphawiki ProWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples alphawiki ProWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
{b I am bold}
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
{i I am italic}
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
{u I am underline}
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
{del I am line-through}
[[strike]strikethrough text]
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
E = mc{sup 2}
<sup>text</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
<sub>text</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
{center I am centered}
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
: indented line
:: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
# numbered list
## numbered list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
; term: definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
{hr}
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