PBwiki vs. EditMe vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features PBwiki EditMe TWiki PmWiki
Version
N/A
N/A
TWiki-6.1.0
2.5.5
Last Release Date
N/A
N/A
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-01-10 (21 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2010-07-12 (15 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-01-10 (21 days ago)
Author
PBworks
EditMe, LLC
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
N/A
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
N/A
N/A
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
N/A
N/A
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
From $4.95/mo
N/A
0
Development status
N/A
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
Hosting Features PBwiki EditMe TWiki PmWiki
Storage Quota
No limit
25MB to 4GB
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
1GB to 25GB
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
None
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
None
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
System Requirements PBwiki EditMe TWiki PmWiki
Operating System
N/A
N/A
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
N/A
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
N/A
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Datastorage PBwiki EditMe TWiki PmWiki
Text Files
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
MySQL
N/A
N/A
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
N/A
N/A
No
No
Oracle
N/A
N/A
No
No
SQLite
N/A
N/A
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
N/A
N/A
No
No
RCS
N/A
N/A
Yes
Plugin
Other
N/A
N/A
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki EditMe TWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
N/A
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
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
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support PBwiki EditMe TWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PBwiki EditMe TWiki PmWiki
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
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PBwiki EditMe TWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, 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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links PBwiki EditMe TWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PBwiki EditMe TWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Javascript
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability PBwiki EditMe TWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics PBwiki EditMe TWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output PBwiki EditMe TWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files PBwiki EditMe TWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras PBwiki EditMe TWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PBwiki EditMe TWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
Use WYSIWYG editor
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italics''
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
Use WYSIWYG editor
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
Use WYSIWYG editor
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
Use WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
Use WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
Use WYSIWYG editor
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%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 block
Use WYSIWYG editor
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
Use WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Number #1
# Number #2
Use WYSIWYG editor
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
Use WYSIWYG editor
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
---
Use WYSIWYG editor
---
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