PmWiki vs. ProntoWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. MojoMojo

General Features PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
Version
2.5.5
1.0.1
6.2.0
1.02
Last Release Date
2026-01-10 (20 days ago)
2026-01-30 (today)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2010-08-30 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-01-10 (20 days ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2010-09-01 (15 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Clay Alberty
WackoWiki Team
Marcus Ramberg et al. (open-source)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
BSD
BSD
Artistic License
Programming Language
PHP
C#
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
FREE
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Wiki, CMS, Blog users
System Requirements PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows
OS Independent
Any OS that runs Perl
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+
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Has its own server; can run with any web server
Other Requirements
none
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
mod_rewrite (optional)
Catalyst
Datastorage PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
Text Files
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
MySQL
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Unknown
No
Patch
SQLite
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
RCS
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
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
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Optional
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Unknown
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
1
English
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
11
Catalan, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian
Email notification
Optional
No
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Patch
No
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Links PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
none
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Unknown
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
actions (PHP)
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
Recent Changes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
No
Yes
Patch
Most/Least Popular
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Output PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Extras PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
No
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[pagename]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[another page]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
{title|url}
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Markdown:
[Link text](http://example.com)

Textile:
"link text":http://example.com
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
!, !!, !!!
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Mardown:
#Heading 1

Textile:
h1. Heading 1
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Markdown: **bold**

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

Textile:
@command line example@
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
--strikethrough--
Textile:
normal text -striked- normal text
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<<super>> (using custom tags)
^^superscript^^
Textile: ^superscript^
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
vvsubscriptvv
Textile: ~subscript~
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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Markdown:
![alt text](/image/path "title text")

Textile:
!http://example.com/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
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Textile:
< right
> left
= center
<> justify
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
one
two
Textile:
> text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
+
++
+++
++++
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* an item
* another item
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
#
##
###
####
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# item 1
# item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Textile:
dl. title:data goes here
Horizontal Rule
----
----
<hr />
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