PmWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. UseMod

General Features PmWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Version
2.6.0
1.45.3
1.2.2
Last Release Date
2026-05-16 (24 days ago)
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-05-16 (24 days ago)
2026-06-03 (6 days ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Clifford Adams
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements PmWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
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, probably anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
none
none
Datastorage PmWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
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
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Patch
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support PmWiki MediaWiki UseMod
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PmWiki MediaWiki UseMod
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
No
Special Features PmWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Unknown
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
0
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links PmWiki MediaWiki UseMod
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki MediaWiki UseMod
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
Unknown
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Usability PmWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics PmWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Patch
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Patch
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
No
Output PmWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
No
XML export
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki MediaWiki UseMod
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Unknown
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Extras PmWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki MediaWiki UseMod
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]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<s>strikethrough</s>
N/A
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://url.com/pic.gif
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>
N/A
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
: indented line
: indented
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
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
; term : definition
;Term:Definition
Horizontal Rule
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