| General Features | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | PmWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
5.0.0.1
|
1.0.1
|
2.5.5
|
| Last Release Date |
2026-01-30 (today)
|
2026-01-10 (20 days ago)
|
|
| Last Update here |
2019-02-19 (6 years ago)
|
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
|
2026-01-10 (20 days ago)
|
| Author |
Eduardo Mauro
|
Clay Alberty
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Commercial
|
BSD
|
GPL2+
|
| Programming Language |
Programming Language Not relevant (completely self-contained)
|
C#
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
39,95
|
Free
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Anyone doing research needing a tool with wiki capabilities for data organization and retrieval. Standalone wiki system
|
All
|
|
| System Requirements | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | PmWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows
|
Windows
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
No need
|
IIS 5+
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
|
none
|
| Datastorage | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | PmWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
Firebird
|
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | PmWiki |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
No need
|
.NET Membership platform
|
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
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | PmWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | PmWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | PmWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Interface Languages |
5
Danish, German, English, Italian, Portuguese |
1
English |
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
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
No
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
None
|
Conflict Resolution
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Links | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | PmWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | PmWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Some
|
Plugin
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
none
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
Yes
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | PmWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | PmWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Output | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | PmWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | PmWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Filenames only
|
|
| Extras | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | PmWiki |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | PmWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[wiki page]] [[wiki page|Title]] |
[pagename] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
| External Link |
[[$URL:www.connectedtext.com]] [[$URL:www.connectedtext.com|Title]] |
{title|url} |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
| Headlines |
= Head1 = == Head 2 == === Head 3 ==== |
!, !!, !!! |
! Level 1 !!#anchor Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
//italic// |
''italics'' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
__Underline__ |
__under__ |
{+underlined+} |
| Monospace Format |
{{{Monospace}}} |
|
@@monospace@@ |
| Strikethrough Format |
--Strikethrough-- |
<<strike>> (using custom tags) |
{-strikethrough-} |
| Superscript Format |
^^Superscript^^ |
<<super>> (using custom tags) |
'^superscript^' |
| Subscript Format |
vvSubscriptvv |
<<sub>> (using custom tags) |
'_subscript_' |
| Images |
[[$IMG:Image.jpeg]] |
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
| Aligning Text |
~~Centered text~~ |
available through custom tags |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
| Text Indentation |
: First level of indenting :: Second level |
multiple spaces -> |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
| Bulleted Lists |
* First item * Seconditem |
+ ++ +++ ++++ |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. First item 1. Second item |
# ## ### #### |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
;Term:Definition |
|
: term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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