| General Features | PmWiki | BookStack |
|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.7.6
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v21.12.1
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| Last Release Date |
2026-09-18 (28 days ago)
|
2022-01-06 (4 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2026-09-18 (28 days ago)
|
2022-01-08 (4 years ago)
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| Author |
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
Dan Brown
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| URL | ||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
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| License |
GPL2+
|
MIT
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| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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| Intended Audience |
All
|
Small to mid-size groups and businesses
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| System Requirements | PmWiki | BookStack |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
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| Root Access |
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
|
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
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| Other Requirements |
none
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Command-line access, PHP7.3+
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| Datastorage | PmWiki | BookStack |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
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| MySQL |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
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| SQLite |
Plugin
|
No
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Plugin
|
No
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| Other |
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
MariaDB
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| Security/Anti-Spam | PmWiki | BookStack |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
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.
|
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
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| Host Blocking |
Optional
|
No
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| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Yes
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| nofollow |
Yes
|
No
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| Blacklist |
Optional
|
No
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| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
No
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| Development/Support | PmWiki | BookStack |
| # of Consultants | ||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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No
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| Code Repository | ||
| Issue Tracker | ||
| Mailing List | ||
| Support Forum | ||
| Chat Channel | ||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
19080 ⭐
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| Common Features | PmWiki | BookStack |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
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| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
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| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
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| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Number
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| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
No
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| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
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| Special Features | PmWiki | BookStack |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
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| Right-to-Left Support |
Optional
|
Yes
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| Interface Languages |
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 |
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Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
No
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
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| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
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| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
No
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
No
|
| Links | PmWiki | BookStack |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
No
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
No
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| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | PmWiki | BookStack |
| HTML Tags |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
Optional
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Optional
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
None
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Usability | PmWiki | BookStack |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Optional
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | PmWiki | BookStack |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Optional
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Optional
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Output | PmWiki | BookStack |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
No
|
| RSS Feeds |
Optional
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Optional
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Optional
|
No
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media and Files | PmWiki | BookStack |
| File Attachments |
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Optional
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | PmWiki | BookStack |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | PmWiki | BookStack |
| Internal Link |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
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| External Link |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
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| Headlines |
! Level 1 !!#anchor Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
|
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
|
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
|
| Underline Format |
{+underlined+} |
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| Monospace Format |
@@monospace@@ |
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| Strikethrough Format |
{-strikethrough-} |
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| Superscript Format |
'^superscript^' |
|
| Subscript Format |
'_subscript_' |
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| Images |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
|
| Aligning Text |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
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| Text Indentation |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
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| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
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| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
|
| Definition Lists |
: term : definition |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
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