| General Features | bLADE Wiki | PmWiki |
|---|---|---|
| Version |
3.4.9
|
2.6.0
|
| Last Release Date |
2008-11-10 (17 years ago)
|
2026-05-16 (26 days ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2008-11-21 (17 years ago)
|
2026-05-16 (26 days ago)
|
| Author |
Dale Lane
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
| URL | ||
| Free and Open Source |
No
|
Yes
|
| License |
N/A
|
GPL2+
|
| Programming Language |
C#
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Users wanting to be able to view/edit their wiki from a mobile phone or PDA, with a simple wiki that needs almost no setup
|
All
|
| System Requirements | bLADE Wiki | PmWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows, Windows Mobile
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
N/A
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
|
| Other Requirements |
.NET 2 Framework
|
none
|
| Datastorage | bLADE Wiki | PmWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Plugin
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Plugin
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | bLADE Wiki | PmWiki |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
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
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | bLADE Wiki | PmWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||
| Issue Tracker | ||
| Mailing List | ||
| Support Forum | ||
| Chat Channel | ||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | bLADE Wiki | PmWiki |
| Preview |
No
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
No
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | bLADE Wiki | PmWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| 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 |
| Email notification |
No
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
No
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
No
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
None
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Links | bLADE Wiki | PmWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | bLADE Wiki | PmWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Plugin
|
| Math formulas |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Markdown Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
No
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | bLADE Wiki | PmWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Optional
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | bLADE Wiki | PmWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Unknown
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Output | bLADE Wiki | PmWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Optional
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| XML export |
No
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | bLADE Wiki | PmWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Media Revisions |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
|
| Extras | bLADE Wiki | PmWiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | bLADE Wiki | PmWiki |
| Internal Link |
[Link to a page] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
| External Link |
[http://www.linkme.com] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
| Headlines |
+Heading |
! Level 1 !!#anchor Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
| Bold Format |
*bold text* |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
=italic text= |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
_underlined text_ |
{+underlined+} |
| Monospace Format |
[|code sample|] |
@@monospace@@ |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough text- |
{-strikethrough-} |
| Superscript Format |
|
'^superscript^' |
| Subscript Format |
|
'_subscript_' |
| Images |
[$image.jpg$] |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
| Aligning Text |
|
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
| Text Indentation |
> blockquote text |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
| Bulleted Lists |
- bulleted |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# numbered |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
: term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
___ |
---- |
| remove bLADE Wiki | remove PmWiki |