PmWiki vs. Phonemos

General Features PmWiki Phonemos
Version
2.7.6
2026.01
Last Release Date
2026-09-18 (28 days ago)
2026-01-15 (9 months ago)
Last Update here
2026-09-18 (28 days ago)
2026-02-12 (8 months ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
http://www.phonemos.com
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
License
GPL2+
Proprietary
Programming Language
PHP
React/Typescript, Scala
Data Storage
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
from USD/EUR/CHF 50.-/mo.
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Businesses
Hosting Features PmWiki Phonemos
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Unlimited
Other Limits
N/A
-
Topic Restrictions
N/A
Content must be legal and not discriminatory
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
System Requirements PmWiki Phonemos
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, Unix variants, Kubernetes
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Nginx
Other Requirements
none
Datastorage PmWiki Phonemos
Text Files
Yes
No
MySQL
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki Phonemos
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
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.
SAML2, OIDC, FIDO2
Host Blocking
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Development/Support PmWiki Phonemos
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features PmWiki Phonemos
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
No
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki Phonemos
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
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
4
German, English, French, Italian
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Links PmWiki Phonemos
CamelCase
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Syntax Features PmWiki Phonemos
HTML Tags
Plugin
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
via REST API
Content Includes
Yes
Optional
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Usability PmWiki Phonemos
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Statistics PmWiki Phonemos
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Output PmWiki Phonemos
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
No
XML export
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Yes
Media and Files PmWiki Phonemos
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Extras PmWiki Phonemos
Calendar
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Syntax Examples PmWiki Phonemos
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* 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
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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