PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. ProntoWiki

General Features PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Version
2.5.4
TWiki-6.1.0
1.0.1
Last Release Date
2025-12-06 (24 days ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2025-12-30 (today)
Last Update here
2025-12-06 (24 days ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Clay Alberty
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
C#
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
IIS 5+
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Datastorage PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Unknown
MySQL
Plugin
No
Unknown
PostgreSQL
No
No
Unknown
Oracle
No
No
Unknown
SQLite
Plugin
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
RCS
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
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.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
.NET Membership platform
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
No
Development/Support PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Optional
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Unknown
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Unknown
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Optional
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
Output PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
No
XML export
Plugin
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Extras PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[pagename]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
{title|url}
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
!, !!, !!!
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
''italics''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
__under__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<<super>> (using custom tags)
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
available through custom tags
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
#
##
###
####
Definition Lists
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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