| General Features | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PBwiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.45.3
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2.6.0
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N/A
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| Last Release Date |
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
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2026-05-16 (25 days ago)
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N/A
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| Last Update here |
2026-06-03 (7 days ago)
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2026-05-16 (25 days ago)
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2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
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| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
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PBworks
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| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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N/A
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| License |
GPL
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GPL2+
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N/A
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP
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N/A
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| Data Storage |
Database
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Files
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N/A
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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Determined by Solution Needs
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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N/A
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| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
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All
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Business Enterprises
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| Hosting Features | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PBwiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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No limit
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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No limit
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| Other Limits |
N/A
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N/A
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None
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
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N/A
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None
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| Corporate Branding |
N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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| Own Domain |
N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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| Ads allowed |
N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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| System Requirements | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PBwiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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N/A
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| Root Access |
No
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No
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N/A
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| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
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Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
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N/A
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| Other Requirements |
none
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none
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N/A
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| Datastorage | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PBwiki |
| Text Files |
No
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Yes
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N/A
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| MySQL |
Yes
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Plugin
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N/A
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| PostgreSQL |
Yes
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No
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N/A
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| Oracle |
No
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No
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N/A
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| SQLite |
Yes
|
Plugin
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N/A
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
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N/A
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| RCS |
No
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Plugin
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N/A
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| Other |
No
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Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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N/A
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| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PBwiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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| ACL |
No
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Authentication Backends |
Yes
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Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
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N/A
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| Host Blocking |
Yes
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Optional
|
Optional
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| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
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| nofollow |
Optional
|
Yes
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No
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| Blacklist |
Yes
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Optional
|
Optional
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| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
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No
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| Delayed Indexing |
No
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Optional
|
No
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| Development/Support | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PBwiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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Yes
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N/A
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| Code Repository |
N/A
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| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PBwiki |
| Preview |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Minor Changes |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Change Summary |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Page History |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
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Unlimited
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| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
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Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Plugin System |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Special Features | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PBwiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
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Optional
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Yes
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| 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 |
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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 |
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English |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
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| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
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Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
N/A
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| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PBwiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
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| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PBwiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Plugin
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
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| CREOLE support |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
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| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
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Javascript
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| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PBwiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PBwiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Output | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PBwiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PBwiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PBwiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PBwiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
[http://www.externallink.com] |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
! Level 1 !!#anchor Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 !!!!!! Level 6 |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
''italics'' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
{+underlined+} |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
@@monospace@@ |
<code>monospace</code> |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
{-strikethrough-} |
-strikethrough- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
<left>, <center>, <right> |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
Indented block |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Bullet #1 * Bullet #2 ** SubBullet #1 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# Number #1 # Number #2 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
: term : definition |
<dl> </dl> |
| Horizontal Rule |
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