PBwiki vs. PmWiki vs. EditMe vs. WackoWiki

General Features PBwiki PmWiki EditMe WackoWiki
Version
N/A
2.5.8
N/A
6.2.1
Last Release Date
N/A
2026-03-09 (9 days ago)
N/A
2026-03-03 (15 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2026-03-09 (9 days ago)
2010-07-12 (15 years ago)
2026-03-03 (15 days ago)
Author
PBworks
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
EditMe, LLC
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
N/A
GPL2+
N/A
BSD
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
N/A
PHP
Data Storage
N/A
Files
N/A
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
0
From $4.95/mo
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
All
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features PBwiki PmWiki EditMe WackoWiki
Storage Quota
No limit
N/A
25MB to 4GB
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
N/A
1GB to 25GB
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
System Requirements PBwiki PmWiki EditMe WackoWiki
Operating System
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
N/A
OS Independent
Root Access
N/A
No
N/A
No
Webserver
N/A
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
N/A
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
N/A
none
N/A
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage PBwiki PmWiki EditMe WackoWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
N/A
No
MySQL
N/A
Plugin
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
N/A
No
Oracle
N/A
No
N/A
No
SQLite
N/A
Plugin
N/A
Yes
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
N/A
No
RCS
N/A
Plugin
N/A
No
Other
N/A
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
N/A
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki PmWiki EditMe WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
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
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support PBwiki PmWiki EditMe WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PBwiki PmWiki EditMe WackoWiki
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 PmWiki EditMe WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
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
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
N/A
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links PBwiki PmWiki EditMe WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PBwiki PmWiki EditMe WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Javascript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability PBwiki PmWiki EditMe WackoWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics PBwiki PmWiki EditMe WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Optional
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output PBwiki PmWiki EditMe WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files PBwiki PmWiki EditMe WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras PBwiki PmWiki EditMe WackoWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples PBwiki PmWiki EditMe WackoWiki
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
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Use WYSIWYG editor
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
{+underlined+}
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
__underline__
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
@@monospace@@
Use WYSIWYG editor
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
{-strikethrough-}
Use WYSIWYG editor
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Use WYSIWYG editor
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Use WYSIWYG editor
,,subscript,,
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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
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
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
Indented block
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Use WYSIWYG editor
one
two
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
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
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
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
: term : definition
Use WYSIWYG editor
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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Use WYSIWYG editor
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