PmWiki vs. EditMe

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