PmWiki vs. ProntoWiki vs. MojoMojo vs. TWiki

General Features PmWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Version
2.5.5
1.0.1
1.02
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2026-01-10 (20 days ago)
2026-01-30 (today)
2010-08-30 (15 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-01-10 (20 days ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2010-09-01 (15 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Clay Alberty
Marcus Ramberg et al. (open-source)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
BSD
Artistic License
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
C#
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
FREE
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Wiki, CMS, Blog users
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements PmWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows
Any OS that runs Perl
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
IIS 5+
Has its own server; can run with any web server
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
none
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Catalyst
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage PmWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Unknown
Patch
No
SQLite
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
RCS
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
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.
.NET Membership platform
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Unknown
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Blacklist
Optional
No
Unknown
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Unknown
Plugin
Development/Support PmWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PmWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
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
11
Catalan, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
No
No
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
No
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Links PmWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PmWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Yes
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability PmWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Yes
Statistics PmWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Optional
No
Patch
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Output PmWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Extras PmWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[pagename]
[[another page]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
{title|url}
Markdown:
[Link text](http://example.com)

Textile:
"link text":http://example.com
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
!, !!, !!!
Mardown:
#Heading 1

Textile:
h1. Heading 1
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
Markdown: **bold**

Textile: *bold*
*bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
''italics''
_italics_
_italic_
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
__under__
Textile: _underline_
Markdown: use HTML
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
Markdown:
`command line example`

Textile:
@command line example@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
Textile:
normal text -striked- normal text
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<<super>> (using custom tags)
Textile: ^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
Textile: ~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
Markdown:
![alt text](/image/path "title text")

Textile:
!http://example.com/image.png!
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
available through custom tags
Textile:
< right
> left
= center
<> justify
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
Textile:
> text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
+
++
+++
++++
* an item
* another item
* 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 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Textile:
dl. title:data goes here
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
<hr />
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