PBwiki vs. PmWiki vs. EditMe

General Features PBwiki PmWiki EditMe
Version
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2.5.8
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Last Release Date
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2026-03-09 (9 days ago)
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Last Update here
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2026-03-09 (9 days ago)
2010-07-12 (15 years ago)
Author
PBworks
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
EditMe, LLC
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
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License
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GPL2+
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Programming Language
N/A
PHP
N/A
Data Storage
N/A
Files
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
0
From $4.95/mo
Development status
N/A
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
All
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Hosting Features PBwiki PmWiki EditMe
Storage Quota
No limit
N/A
25MB to 4GB
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
N/A
1GB to 25GB
Other Limits
None
N/A
None
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
None
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
Yes
System Requirements PBwiki PmWiki EditMe
Operating System
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Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
N/A
Root Access
N/A
No
N/A
Webserver
N/A
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
N/A
Other Requirements
N/A
none
N/A
Datastorage PBwiki PmWiki EditMe
Text Files
N/A
Yes
N/A
MySQL
N/A
Plugin
N/A
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
N/A
Oracle
N/A
No
N/A
SQLite
N/A
Plugin
N/A
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
N/A
RCS
N/A
Plugin
N/A
Other
N/A
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki PmWiki EditMe
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.
N/A
Host Blocking
Optional
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support PBwiki PmWiki EditMe
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PBwiki PmWiki EditMe
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 EditMe
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links PBwiki PmWiki EditMe
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PBwiki PmWiki EditMe
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
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
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Javascript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability PBwiki PmWiki EditMe
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics PBwiki PmWiki EditMe
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Output PBwiki PmWiki EditMe
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PBwiki PmWiki EditMe
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
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras PBwiki PmWiki EditMe
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PBwiki PmWiki EditMe
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Use WYSIWYG editor
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
Underline Format
__underline__
{+underlined+}
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
@@monospace@@
Use WYSIWYG editor
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
{-strikethrough-}
Use WYSIWYG editor
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Use WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Use WYSIWYG editor
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
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
Use WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
Indented block
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Use WYSIWYG editor
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Use WYSIWYG editor
Numbered Lists
# Number #1
# Number #2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Use WYSIWYG editor
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
: term : definition
Use WYSIWYG editor
Horizontal Rule
---
----
Use WYSIWYG editor
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