ikiwiki vs. MojoMojo vs. PmWiki vs. ProntoWiki

General Features ikiwiki MojoMojo PmWiki ProntoWiki
Version
2.67
1.02
2.6.0
1.0.1
Last Release Date
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2010-08-30 (15 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2026-06-20 (today)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2010-09-01 (15 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Marcus Ramberg et al. (open-source)
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Clay Alberty
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Artistic License
GPL2+
BSD
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
PHP
C#
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
FREE
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
Wiki, CMS, Blog users
All
System Requirements ikiwiki MojoMojo PmWiki ProntoWiki
Operating System
Any
Any OS that runs Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
Has its own server; can run with any web server
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
IIS 5+
Other Requirements
Catalyst
none
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Datastorage ikiwiki MojoMojo PmWiki ProntoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Oracle
No
Patch
No
Unknown
SQLite
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
RCS
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki MojoMojo PmWiki ProntoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
.NET Membership platform
Host Blocking
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Optional
No
Development/Support ikiwiki MojoMojo PmWiki ProntoWiki
# 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 MojoMojo PmWiki ProntoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features ikiwiki MojoMojo PmWiki ProntoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Interface Languages
1
English
11
Catalan, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
No
Optional
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Links ikiwiki MojoMojo PmWiki ProntoWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Windows Shares
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features ikiwiki MojoMojo PmWiki ProntoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Textile Support
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
No
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
JavaScript
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
Plugin
Plugin
No
Usability ikiwiki MojoMojo PmWiki ProntoWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
No
Statistics ikiwiki MojoMojo PmWiki ProntoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Patch
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Output ikiwiki MojoMojo PmWiki ProntoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
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 MojoMojo PmWiki ProntoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras ikiwiki MojoMojo PmWiki ProntoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ikiwiki MojoMojo PmWiki ProntoWiki
Internal Link
[[internal]]
[[another page]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[pagename]
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
Markdown:
[Link text](http://example.com)

Textile:
"link text":http://example.com
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
{title|url}
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Mardown:
#Heading 1

Textile:
h1. Heading 1
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
!, !!, !!!
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
Markdown: **bold**

Textile: *bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
_italics_
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Textile: _underline_
Markdown: use HTML
{+underlined+}
__under__
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Markdown:
`command line example`

Textile:
@command line example@
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Textile:
normal text -striked- normal text
{-strikethrough-}
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Textile: ^superscript^
'^superscript^'
<<super>> (using custom tags)
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Textile: ~subscript~
'_subscript_'
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Markdown:
![alt text](/image/path "title text")

Textile:
!http://example.com/image.png!
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
Aligning Text
Textile:
< right
> left
= center
<> justify
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
available through custom tags
Text Indentation
Textile:
> text
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* an item
* another item
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
+
++
+++
++++
Numbered Lists
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# item 1
# item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
#
##
###
####
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Textile:
dl. title:data goes here
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
<hr />
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