PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. ProntoWiki vs. MojoMojo

General Features PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo
Version
2.5.8
TWiki-6.1.0
1.0.1
1.02
Last Release Date
2026-03-09 (7 days ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-16 (today)
2010-08-30 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-09 (7 days ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2010-09-01 (15 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Clay Alberty
Marcus Ramberg et al. (open-source)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
BSD
Artistic License
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
C#
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
Free
FREE
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Wiki, CMS, Blog users
System Requirements PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Windows
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.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
IIS 5+
Has its own server; can run with any web server
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Catalyst
Datastorage PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
MySQL
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Unknown
Patch
SQLite
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
RCS
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
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 MojoMojo
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
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.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
.NET Membership platform
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
No
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
No
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
No
Unknown
Development/Support PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Unknown
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
11
Catalan, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian
Email notification
Optional
Yes
No
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
No
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
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
Optional
Unknown
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Links PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
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
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
No
Patch
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Output PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Extras PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki MojoMojo
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]
[[another page]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
{title|url}
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
---++++++ Level 6
!, !!, !!!
Mardown:
#Heading 1

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

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

Textile:
@command line example@
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
Textile:
normal text -striked- normal text
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<<super>> (using custom tags)
Textile: ^superscript^
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
Textile: ~subscript~
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
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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
available through custom tags
Textile:
< right
> left
= center
<> justify
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
Textile:
> text
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
+
++
+++
++++
* an item
* another item
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
#
##
###
####
# item 1
# item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Textile:
dl. title:data goes here
Horizontal Rule
----
---
<hr />
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