| General Features | PmWiki | TracWiki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.7.4
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0.11.5
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1.45.3
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| Last Release Date |
2026-07-31 (1 month ago)
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2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
|
2025-12-04 (9 months ago)
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| Last Update here |
2026-07-31 (1 month ago)
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2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
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2026-06-03 (3 months ago)
|
| Author |
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
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Edgewall Software
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL2+
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Modified BSD license
|
GPL
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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Python
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Database
|
Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
|
Beta
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
All
|
Software development teams
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End Users/Desktop, Education
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| System Requirements | PmWiki | TracWiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
|
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
|
Any with PHP support
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| Other Requirements |
none
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Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
|
none
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| Datastorage | PmWiki | TracWiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
0
|
No
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| Security/Anti-Spam | PmWiki | TracWiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
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.
|
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
|
Yes
|
| Host Blocking |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
No
|
No
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| Development/Support | PmWiki | TracWiki | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | PmWiki | TracWiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
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
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | PmWiki | TracWiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Optional
|
Yes
|
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 |
141
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, Javanese, 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 |
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 |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Links | PmWiki | TracWiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | PmWiki | TracWiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Plugin
|
Some
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Scripting |
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
yes, using Python
|
Optional
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | PmWiki | TracWiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | PmWiki | TracWiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Output | PmWiki | TracWiki | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | PmWiki | TracWiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
No
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | PmWiki | TracWiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | PmWiki | TracWiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
CamelCase [wiki:ISO9000] [wiki:TitleIndex Title Index] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software] |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
! Level 1 !!#anchor Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === === Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
{+underlined+} |
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
@@monospace@@ |
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace` |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
{-strikethrough-} |
~~strike-through~~ |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
'^superscript^' |
^superscript^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
'_subscript_' |
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
[[Image(photo.jpg)]] # simplest [[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]] # with size [[Image(photo.jpg, right)]] # aligned by keyword [[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]] # without link |
[[Image:wiki.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 |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
|
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 1 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 1. Item 1 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
: term : definition |
term:: definition |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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