PmWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. mobiki

General Features PmWiki ikiwiki mobiki
Version
2.6.0
2.67
2016-06-26
Last Release Date
2026-05-16 (29 days ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2016-06-26 (9 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-05-16 (29 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2016-06-26 (9 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Martin D�ring
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
MIT
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Anyone
Text centric websites and mobile use
System Requirements PmWiki ikiwiki mobiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
any
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
any
Other Requirements
none
PHP 5.4+
Datastorage PmWiki ikiwiki mobiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki ikiwiki mobiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
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
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support PmWiki ikiwiki mobiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PmWiki ikiwiki mobiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features PmWiki ikiwiki mobiki
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
0
Email notification
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
No
Links PmWiki ikiwiki mobiki
CamelCase
Optional
Plugin
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
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 mobiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Plugin
No
No
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
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
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability PmWiki ikiwiki mobiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Optional
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics PmWiki ikiwiki mobiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Output PmWiki ikiwiki mobiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Plugin
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
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 mobiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
No
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
No
Extras PmWiki ikiwiki mobiki
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 mobiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[internal]]
[Internal Link]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[link text](http://example.org)
http://mobiki.datenbrei.de
[Text|http://mobiki.datenbrei.de]
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

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

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
n/a
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)
http://image.png
image:example.jpg
images:imagefolder
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
___
aligned text
___
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
- One
- Two
* One
* Two
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
0. One
0. Two
0. Three
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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