mobiki vs. PmWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features mobiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Version
2016-06-26
2.5.8
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2016-06-26 (9 years ago)
2026-03-09 (26 days ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-06-26 (9 years ago)
2026-03-09 (26 days ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Author
Martin D�ring
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Text centric websites and mobile use
All
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
System Requirements mobiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
any
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
PHP 5.4+
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage mobiki 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
No
Plugin
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
Security/Anti-Spam mobiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
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.
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support mobiki 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 mobiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
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
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features mobiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
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
0
Email notification
No
Optional
Patch
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
No
Structured Data
No
Yes
Plugin
Links mobiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features mobiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
None
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability mobiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
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 mobiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Patch
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Patch
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Output mobiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Patch
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files mobiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
No
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Extras mobiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples mobiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
[Internal Link]
[[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
http://mobiki.datenbrei.de
[Text|http://mobiki.datenbrei.de]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
!Headline
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
n/a
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
Monospace Format
n/a
@@monospace@@
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
n/a
{-strikethrough-}
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
n/a
'^superscript^'
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
n/a
'_subscript_'
""<sub>Subscript</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
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
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
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
n/a
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
- One
- Two
* One
* Two
* 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
0. One
0. Two
0. Three
# 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
n/a
: term : definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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