PBwiki vs. PmWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features PBwiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Version
N/A
2.5.3
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
N/A
2025-11-08 (20 days ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2025-11-08 (20 days ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
Author
PBworks
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL2+
GPL 2
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
N/A
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
All
personal, small to medium companies
Hosting Features PBwiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Storage Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
System Requirements PBwiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
N/A
none
Datastorage PBwiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
Yes
MySQL
N/A
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
No
Oracle
N/A
No
No
SQLite
N/A
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
RCS
N/A
Plugin
No
Other
N/A
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
None
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
Development/Support PBwiki PmWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PBwiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PBwiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links PBwiki PmWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PBwiki PmWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Javascript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability PBwiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics PBwiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Output PBwiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files PBwiki PmWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras PBwiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples PBwiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
@@monospace@@
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
{-strikethrough-}
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Plugin
Text Indentation
Indented block
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Number #1
# Number #2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
: term : definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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