| General Features | PmWiki | WiGit | Wikidot | XoWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.6.0
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0.1
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0.113
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| Last Release Date |
2026-05-16 (28 days ago)
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2008-07-21 (17 years ago)
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2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2026-05-16 (28 days ago)
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2009-07-09 (16 years ago)
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2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
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2009-03-13 (17 years ago)
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| Author |
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
Remko Tronçon
|
Michal Frackowiak
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Prof. Gustaf Neumann
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL2+
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GPL
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AGPLv3
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BSD
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP
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XOTcl and Tcl
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| Data Storage |
Files
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other
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Database
|
Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
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Free
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| Development status |
Mature
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Beta
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
All
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Private users
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companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
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large and small organizations as well as individuals
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| Hosting Features | PmWiki | WiGit | Wikidot | XoWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
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N/A
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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no limit
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N/A
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| Other Limits |
N/A
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N/A
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max uploaded file size limit
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N/A
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
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N/A
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by Terms Of Service
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N/A
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| Corporate Branding |
N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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| Own Domain |
N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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| Ads allowed |
N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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| System Requirements | PmWiki | WiGit | Wikidot | XoWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
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| Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
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| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
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AOLServer
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| Other Requirements |
none
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Git
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| Datastorage | PmWiki | WiGit | Wikidot | XoWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
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Unknown
|
No
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| MySQL |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
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| RCS |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
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| Other |
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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Git repositories
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| Security/Anti-Spam | PmWiki | WiGit | Wikidot | XoWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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| ACL |
Yes
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
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| 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.
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PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
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| Host Blocking |
Optional
|
No
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Yes
|
Patch
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
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| Development/Support | PmWiki | WiGit | Wikidot | XoWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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No
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Yes
|
No
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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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N/A
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| Common Features | PmWiki | WiGit | Wikidot | XoWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | PmWiki | WiGit | Wikidot | XoWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
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| 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 |
0
|
2
English, Polish |
3
German, English, Spanish |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
No
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
None
|
Page Locking
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Not available
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Links | PmWiki | WiGit | Wikidot | XoWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | PmWiki | WiGit | Wikidot | XoWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Plugin
|
Some
|
None
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Quoting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
|
Yes
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | PmWiki | WiGit | Wikidot | XoWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Statistics | PmWiki | WiGit | Wikidot | XoWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Output | PmWiki | WiGit | Wikidot | XoWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
No
|
Print View
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| RSS Feeds |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| HTML Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | PmWiki | WiGit | Wikidot | XoWiki |
| File Attachments |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
No
|
No
|
Contents
|
| Extras | PmWiki | WiGit | Wikidot | XoWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | PmWiki | WiGit | Wikidot | XoWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
[InternalLink] |
[[[page-name]]] or [[[page-name|anchor]]] |
|
| External Link |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
"External link":http://externallink.com |
http://www.wikimatrix.org or [http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix] |
|
| Headlines |
! Level 1 !!#anchor Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
h1. Headline |
+++ headline level 3 |
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| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
*Bold* |
**bold text** |
|
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
_Italics_ |
//italic text// |
|
| Underline Format |
{+underlined+} |
+underlined+ |
__underlined text__ |
|
| Monospace Format |
@@monospace@@ |
@monospace@ |
{{monospaced text}} |
|
| Strikethrough Format |
{-strikethrough-} |
-strikethrough- |
--strikethrough text-- |
|
| Superscript Format |
'^superscript^' |
^superscript^ |
^^superscript^^ |
|
| Subscript Format |
'_subscript_' |
~subscript~ |
,,subscript,, |
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| Images |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
!image.jpg! |
[[image src="..."]] |
|
| Aligning Text |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
>Right-aligned |
= Centered line |
|
| Text Indentation |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
|
> First level of indentation >> Second level of indentation. |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Bulleted * List ** Sublist |
* element 1 * element 2 |
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| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# Numbered # List ## Sublist |
# element 1 # element 1 |
|
| Definition Lists |
: term : definition |
|
: item : description |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
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