ikiwiki vs. PmWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features ikiwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Version
2.67
2.5.8
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2026-03-09 (25 days ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-03-09 (25 days ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
All
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
System Requirements ikiwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage ikiwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
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.
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support ikiwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features ikiwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ikiwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
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
Optional
Patch
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Links ikiwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features ikiwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability ikiwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
No
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Patch
Statistics ikiwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Patch
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Patch
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Output ikiwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Patch
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files ikiwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras ikiwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples ikiwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
[[internal]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
@@monospace@@
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
{-strikethrough-}
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
'^superscript^'
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
'_subscript_'
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- 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 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
: term : definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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