PmWiki vs. EditMe vs. TWiki

General Features PmWiki EditMe TWiki
Version
2.5.8
N/A
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2026-03-09 (9 days ago)
N/A
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-09 (9 days ago)
2010-07-12 (15 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
EditMe, LLC
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
GPL2+
N/A
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
N/A
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
N/A
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
From $4.95/mo
N/A
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Hosting Features PmWiki EditMe TWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
25MB to 4GB
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
1GB to 25GB
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
N/A
System Requirements PmWiki EditMe TWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
N/A
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
N/A
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
none
N/A
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage PmWiki EditMe TWiki
Text Files
Yes
N/A
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
No
Oracle
No
N/A
No
SQLite
Plugin
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
RCS
Plugin
N/A
Yes
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
N/A
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki EditMe TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
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
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Optional
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Plugin
Development/Support PmWiki EditMe TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PmWiki EditMe TWiki
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 PmWiki EditMe TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
No
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links PmWiki EditMe TWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PmWiki EditMe TWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability PmWiki EditMe TWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics PmWiki EditMe TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Optional
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output PmWiki EditMe TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Optional
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki EditMe TWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras PmWiki EditMe TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki EditMe TWiki
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
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Use WYSIWYG editor
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
*bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
_italic_
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
Use WYSIWYG editor
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
Use WYSIWYG editor
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
Use WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
Use WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Use WYSIWYG editor
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Use WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Use WYSIWYG editor
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Use WYSIWYG editor
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
Use WYSIWYG editor
---
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