ikiwiki vs. LynxWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Wikepage

General Features ikiwiki LynxWiki PmWiki Wikepage
Version
2.67
1.3.0.0
2.5.8
2008.1
Last Release Date
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
2026-03-09 (25 days ago)
2008-10-14 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
2026-03-09 (25 days ago)
2008-10-24 (17 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
J.W. Davidson
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Jose Carlos Medeiros
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Apache License 2.0
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
C#
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
small organization to enterprise
All
Private users, small groups
System Requirements ikiwiki LynxWiki PmWiki Wikepage
Operating System
Any
Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Platform Independent
Root Access
No
Yes
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
IIS7 or IIS8
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Server Independent
Other Requirements
IronPython
none
n/a
Datastorage ikiwiki LynxWiki PmWiki Wikepage
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Other
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki LynxWiki PmWiki Wikepage
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
MS Membership and Roles
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
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
No
Development/Support ikiwiki LynxWiki PmWiki Wikepage
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ikiwiki LynxWiki PmWiki Wikepage
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
No
Special Features ikiwiki LynxWiki PmWiki Wikepage
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
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
0
Email notification
Yes
No
Optional
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links ikiwiki LynxWiki PmWiki Wikepage
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features ikiwiki LynxWiki PmWiki Wikepage
HTML Tags
Optional
None
Plugin
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
IronPython
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability ikiwiki LynxWiki PmWiki Wikepage
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
No
Optional
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
No
Statistics ikiwiki LynxWiki PmWiki Wikepage
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
No
Output ikiwiki LynxWiki PmWiki Wikepage
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
No
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files ikiwiki LynxWiki PmWiki Wikepage
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras ikiwiki LynxWiki PmWiki Wikepage
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ikiwiki LynxWiki PmWiki Wikepage
Internal Link
[[internal]]
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[Link_type]
[http://externallink.com]
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
http://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://externallink.com/|click]
[http://externallink.com/|picture.gif]
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Biggest
!! Smaller
!!! Smallest
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**Bold**
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
_italics_
''italic''
''Italic''
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
+underlined+
{+underlined+}
__Underline__
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
@@monospace@@
With a space in front of the text
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
-strikethrough-
{-strikethrough-}
n/a
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
superscript^234^
'^superscript^'
n/a
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
water: H~2~O
'_subscript_'
n/a
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[image.gif]
[http://externalimage.com/image.gif]
Aligning Text
N/A
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
n/a
Text Indentation
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* first bullet (8 spaces)
* first sub item bullet
* second item
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Bullet1
* Bullet2
Numbered Lists
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
1. first numbered item
1. second item
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
n/a
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
N/A
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
----
----
---
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