Hatta vs. Instiki vs. PmWiki

General Features Hatta Instiki PmWiki
Version
1.6.6
0.30.0
2.6.0
Last Release Date
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
Author
Radomir Dopieralski
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
Ruby's
GPL2+
Programming Language
Python
Ruby on Rails
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
general, education
All
System Requirements Hatta Instiki PmWiki
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
Mercurial
Ruby 2.0-2.6
none
Datastorage Hatta Instiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
Optional
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Hatta Instiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
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.
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Unknown
Optional
nofollow
No
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Optional
Development/Support Hatta Instiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
506 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Hatta Instiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Special Features Hatta Instiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
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
No
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
No
Yes
Links Hatta Instiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Hatta Instiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
None
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
Usability Hatta Instiki PmWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Hatta Instiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Output Hatta Instiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
No
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Hatta Instiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Optional
Embedded Flash
No
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras Hatta Instiki PmWiki
Calendar
No
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Hatta Instiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
[another site](http://example.com)
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
_italic_, *italic*
''italic''
Underline Format
n/a
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
{{{verbatim}}}
`monospace`
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
n/a
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
n/a
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
n/a
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
n/a
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
n/a
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* list
** sublist
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
n/a
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
n/a
term
: definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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