PmWiki vs. ProntoWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features PmWiki ProntoWiki WikkaWiki
Version
2.6.0
1.0.1
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2026-06-20 (today)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Clay Alberty
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
C#
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
System Requirements PmWiki ProntoWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
IIS 5+
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
none
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage PmWiki ProntoWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Unknown
No
MySQL
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Unknown
No
Oracle
No
Unknown
No
SQLite
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
RCS
Plugin
Unknown
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
No
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki ProntoWiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
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
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support PmWiki ProntoWiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PmWiki ProntoWiki WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features PmWiki ProntoWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Unknown
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
1
English
0
Email notification
Optional
No
Patch
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Optional
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
No
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Links PmWiki ProntoWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Optional
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Features PmWiki ProntoWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Unknown
No
Textile Support
No
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
No
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability PmWiki ProntoWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Patch
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Patch
Statistics PmWiki ProntoWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Optional
Patch
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Patch
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
Output PmWiki ProntoWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Optional
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
No
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Patch
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files PmWiki ProntoWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Unknown
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Extras PmWiki ProntoWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
No
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PmWiki ProntoWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[pagename]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
{title|url}
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
!, !!, !!!
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italics''
//italic//
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
__under__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<<super>> (using custom tags)
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
""<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
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
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
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
+
++
+++
++++
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- 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
#
##
###
####
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
Definition Lists
: term : definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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