mobiki vs. PmWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features mobiki PmWiki ikiwiki
Version
2016-06-26
2.7.3
2.67
Last Release Date
2016-06-26 (10 years ago)
2026-07-26 (1 day ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-06-26 (10 years ago)
2026-07-26 (1 day ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
Martin D�ring
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Text centric websites and mobile use
All
Anyone
System Requirements mobiki PmWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
any
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Any, or none
Other Requirements
PHP 5.4+
none
Datastorage mobiki PmWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam mobiki PmWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support mobiki PmWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features mobiki PmWiki ikiwiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features mobiki PmWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
No
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Unknown
Links mobiki PmWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features mobiki PmWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
None
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
No
Quoting
No
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
No
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability mobiki PmWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Optional
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics mobiki PmWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output mobiki PmWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files mobiki PmWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
No
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Optional
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Optional
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras mobiki PmWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples mobiki PmWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
[Internal Link]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[internal]]
External Link
http://mobiki.datenbrei.de
[Text|http://mobiki.datenbrei.de]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
!Headline
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
n/a
{+underlined+}
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
n/a
@@monospace@@
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
n/a
{-strikethrough-}
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
n/a
'^superscript^'
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
n/a
'_subscript_'
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
http://image.png
image:example.jpg
images:imagefolder
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
___
aligned text
___
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
n/a
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
- One
- Two
* One
* Two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
0. One
0. Two
0. Three
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
n/a
: term : definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
---
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove mobiki remove PmWiki remove ikiwiki