MediaWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Wiclear

General Features MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Wiclear
Version
1.32.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.5.3
1.0
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2025-11-08 (21 days ago)
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2025-11-08 (21 days ago)
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
David Jobet
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
GPL2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
All
private users
System Requirements MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Wiclear
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache
Other Requirements
none
various opt. helpers
none
MySql
Datastorage MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Wiclear
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Wiclear
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
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
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
No
Development/Support MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Wiclear
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Wiclear
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Wiclear
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
No
Interface Languages
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
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
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Links MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Wiclear
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Wiclear
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Not at the moment
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Wiclear
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Wiclear
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Wiclear
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
Yes
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Wiclear
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
Filenames only
No
Extras MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Wiclear
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Wiclear
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[Title]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[Title|http://url.to/]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[ 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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
Horizontal Rule
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