PmWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. Hatta

General Features PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Version
2.6.0
2.67
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2026-05-16 (29 days ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-05-16 (29 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
GPL v2
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Anyone
System Requirements PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Any, or none
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
none
Mercurial
Datastorage PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
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.
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
n/a
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
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
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Optional
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
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
No
Links PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
CamelCase
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
No
Syntax Features PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
No
No
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
No
Usability PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Optional
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Output PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Optional
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Plugin
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
No
XML export
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Optional
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Optional
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[internal]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[link text](http://example.org)
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italic//
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
n/a
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
n/a
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
n/a
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
n/a
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
n/a
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* list
** sublist
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
n/a
Definition Lists
: term : definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
n/a
Horizontal Rule
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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