ProntoWiki vs. MojoMojo vs. PmWiki vs. Friki

General Features ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki Friki
Version
1.0.1
1.02
2.5.5
2.1.1
Last Release Date
2026-01-30 (today)
2010-08-30 (15 years ago)
2026-01-10 (20 days ago)
2004-05-14 (21 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2010-09-01 (15 years ago)
2026-01-10 (20 days ago)
2006-02-14 (19 years ago)
Author
Clay Alberty
Marcus Ramberg et al. (open-source)
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Frank Carver
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
Artistic License
GPL2+
ASL or LGPL
Programming Language
C#
Perl
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
FREE
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Wiki, CMS, Blog users
All
private users and small teams
System Requirements ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki Friki
Operating System
Windows
Any OS that runs Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
Root Access
No
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.
Any that can run or call Java
Other Requirements
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Catalyst
none
Java 1.3 or later
Datastorage ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki Friki
Text Files
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Unknown
Patch
No
No
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
RCS
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
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 Friki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
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
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Unknown
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Optional
No
Development/Support ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki Friki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki Friki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
No
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki Friki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
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
0
Email notification
No
No
Optional
No
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Links ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki Friki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Windows Shares
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki Friki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Plugin
None
Math formulas
No
No
Plugin
No
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Optional
Unknown
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Textile Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Optional
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Footnotes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Usability ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki Friki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
No
Statistics ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki Friki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Patch
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Output ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki Friki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
Optional
No
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
No
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki Friki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Media Revisions
No
Unknown
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Extras ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki Friki
Calendar
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProntoWiki MojoMojo PmWiki Friki
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'''
'''bold''
Italics Format
''italics''
_italics_
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__under__
Textile: _underline_
Markdown: use HTML
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
Markdown:
`command line example`

Textile:
@command line example@
@@monospace@@
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
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
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
:        indented
Bulleted Lists
+
++
+++
++++
* an item
* another item
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* first
* second
Numbered Lists
#
##
###
####
# item 1
# item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. first
1. second
Definition Lists
Textile:
dl. title:data goes here
: term : definition
title:        description
Horizontal Rule
<hr />
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