| General Features | PmWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Instiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.7.4
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1.45.3
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phpwiki-1.3.14
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0.30.0
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| Last Release Date |
2026-07-31 (1 month ago)
|
2025-12-04 (9 months ago)
|
2007-07-01 (19 years ago)
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2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2026-07-31 (1 month ago)
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2026-06-03 (3 months ago)
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2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
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2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
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| Author |
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
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David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL2+
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GPL
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GPL
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Ruby's
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
Ruby on Rails
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| Data Storage |
Files
|
Database
|
Database, Files, RCS
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Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
All
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Any
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general, education
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| System Requirements | PmWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Instiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
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| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
|
Any with PHP support
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
none
|
various opt. helpers
|
Ruby 2.0-2.6
|
| Datastorage | PmWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Instiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| SQLite |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RCS |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
No
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gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
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Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
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| Security/Anti-Spam | PmWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Instiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
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.
|
Yes
|
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
|
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| Host Blocking |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Development/Support | PmWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Instiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
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No
|
No
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
#phpwiki
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|||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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N/A
|
N/A
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504 ⭐
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| Common Features | PmWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Instiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | PmWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Instiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
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 |
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional |
1
English |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Links | PmWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Instiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | PmWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Instiki |
| HTML Tags |
Plugin
|
Some
|
Some
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
Optional
|
plugins, templates, PHP
|
None
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Usability | PmWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Instiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | PmWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Instiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Output | PmWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Instiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RSS Feeds |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | PmWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Instiki |
| File Attachments |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Keywords
|
No
|
No
|
| Extras | PmWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Instiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | PmWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Instiki |
| Internal Link |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
WikiWord or [somelink] [ desc | pagename ] |
[[Some Page]] [[Some Page|anchor text]] [[Some Page#anchor]] [[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]] |
| External Link |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://someserver/someurl [ desc | exturl ] |
[another site](http://example.com) |
| Headlines |
! Level 1 !!#anchor Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
#Level 1# ##Level 2## ###Level 3### ####Level 4#### #####Level 5##### ######Level 6###### |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
*bold* or <strong>bold</strong> |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
_italic_, *italic* |
| Underline Format |
{+underlined+} |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'} |
| Monospace Format |
@@monospace@@ |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
<tt>monospace</tt> <code>code</code> <pre>preformatted</pre> <verbatim> unparsed text</verbatim> |
`monospace` |
| Strikethrough Format |
{-strikethrough-} |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<strike>striked through</strike> |
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'} |
| Superscript Format |
'^superscript^' |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>above</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
'_subscript_' |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>below</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] external image [Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] view uploaded image [Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] view and link to another image |
, [[image.jpg|alt text:pic]] |
| Aligning Text |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
<center>Centered</center> |
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?> or <div align="right"> right </div> |
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'} |
| Text Indentation |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
: indented line |
;: left indent ;;: more left indent or paragraph and another level |
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}
> blockquote |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* list or - list |
* 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 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# list |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 2. Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
: term : definition |
; term : definition |
Term:<def> def |
term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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