EditMe vs. PBwiki vs. PmWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. TWiki

General Features EditMe PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Version
N/A
N/A
2.5.6
phpwiki-1.3.14
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
N/A
N/A
2026-02-08 (19 days ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-07-12 (15 years ago)
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2026-02-08 (19 days ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
EditMe, LLC
PBworks
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
N/A
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
N/A
N/A
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
N/A
N/A
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
From $4.95/mo
Determined by Solution Needs
0
0
N/A
Development status
N/A
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Business Enterprises
All
Any
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Hosting Features EditMe PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Storage Quota
25MB to 4GB
No limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
1GB to 25GB
No limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements EditMe PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Operating System
N/A
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
N/A
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
N/A
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
none
various opt. helpers
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage EditMe PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Text Files
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
N/A
N/A
Plugin
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
N/A
N/A
No
Yes
No
Oracle
N/A
N/A
No
Yes
No
SQLite
N/A
N/A
Plugin
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
N/A
No
Yes
No
RCS
N/A
N/A
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other
N/A
N/A
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam EditMe PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
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
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Development/Support EditMe PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features EditMe PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features EditMe PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
Interface Languages
1
English
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Links EditMe PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features EditMe PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Plugin
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
Javascript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins, templates, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability EditMe PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics EditMe PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output EditMe PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files EditMe PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras EditMe PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples EditMe PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[http://www.externallink.com]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
Use WYSIWYG editor
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*bold*
Italics Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
''italics''
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italic_
Underline Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
__underline__
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
<code>monospace</code>
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
-strikethrough-
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>striked through</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
Use WYSIWYG editor
<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
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
Use WYSIWYG editor
Indented block
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
# Number #1
# Number #2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
<dl>
</dl>
: term : definition
Term:<def>
def
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
Use WYSIWYG editor
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