ProntoWiki vs. MojoMojo vs. PmWiki

General Features ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki
Version
1.0.1
1.02
2.5.5
Last Release Date
2026-01-30 (today)
2010-08-30 (15 years ago)
2026-01-10 (20 days ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2010-09-01 (15 years ago)
2026-01-10 (20 days ago)
Author
Clay Alberty
Marcus Ramberg et al. (open-source)
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
Artistic License
GPL2+
Programming Language
C#
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
FREE
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Wiki, CMS, Blog users
All
System Requirements ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki
Operating System
Windows
Any OS that runs Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS 5+
Has its own server; can run with any web server
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Catalyst
none
Datastorage ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki
Text Files
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
No
Oracle
Unknown
Patch
No
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
Unknown
No
RCS
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Other
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
.NET Membership platform
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
No
Unknown
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Optional
nofollow
No
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
No
Unknown
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Optional
Development/Support ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
11
Catalan, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian
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
Email notification
No
No
Optional
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Optional
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
No
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Yes
Links ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Unknown
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Unknown
Plugin
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
No
No
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
Unknown
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Plugin
Usability ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
Patch
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Unknown
No
Recent Visitors
No
Unknown
Plugin
Analysis
No
Unknown
Plugin
Output ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Unknown
Optional
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Extras ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki
Calendar
Unknown
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki
Internal Link
[pagename]
[[another page]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
{title|url}
Markdown:
[Link text](http://example.com)

Textile:
"link text":http://example.com
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
!, !!, !!!
Mardown:
#Heading 1

Textile:
h1. Heading 1
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
Markdown: **bold**

Textile: *bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italics''
_italics_
''italic''
Underline Format
__under__
Textile: _underline_
Markdown: use HTML
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
Markdown:
`command line example`

Textile:
@command line example@
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
Textile:
normal text -striked- normal text
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<<super>> (using custom tags)
Textile: ^superscript^
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
Textile: ~subscript~
'_subscript_'
Images
{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!
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
available through custom tags
Textile:
< right
> left
= center
<> justify
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
Textile:
> text
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
+
++
+++
++++
* an item
* another item
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
#
##
###
####
# item 1
# item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Textile:
dl. title:data goes here
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
<hr />
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