UseMod vs. PmWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features UseMod PmWiki PhpWiki
Version
1.2.2
2.6.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Any
System Requirements UseMod PmWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
various opt. helpers
Datastorage UseMod PmWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod PmWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
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.
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
No
nofollow
Patch
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support UseMod PmWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features UseMod PmWiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features UseMod PmWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
No
Interface Languages
0
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Links UseMod PmWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features UseMod PmWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Scripting
None
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Usability UseMod PmWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
No
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics UseMod PmWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output UseMod PmWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files UseMod PmWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Extras UseMod PmWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples UseMod PmWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
N/A
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>below</sub>
Images
http://url.com/pic.gif
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
N/A
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
: indented
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
: term : definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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