UseMod vs. PmWiki vs. ProntoWiki

General Features UseMod PmWiki ProntoWiki
Version
1.2.2
2.5.4
1.0.1
Last Release Date
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2025-12-06 (24 days ago)
2025-12-30 (today)
Last Update here
2025-02-25 (10 months ago)
2025-12-06 (24 days ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Clay Alberty
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
BSD
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
C#
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
System Requirements UseMod PmWiki ProntoWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows
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.
IIS 5+
Other Requirements
none
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Datastorage UseMod PmWiki ProntoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Unknown
MySQL
No
Plugin
Unknown
PostgreSQL
No
No
Unknown
Oracle
No
No
Unknown
SQLite
No
Plugin
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Plugin
Unknown
Other
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod PmWiki ProntoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
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.
.NET Membership platform
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
No
nofollow
Patch
Yes
No
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support UseMod PmWiki ProntoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features UseMod PmWiki ProntoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Special Features UseMod PmWiki ProntoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
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
1
English
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
No
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links UseMod PmWiki ProntoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Optional
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features UseMod PmWiki ProntoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Unknown
Textile Support
No
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Unknown
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
No
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Optional
Quoting
No
Plugin
Optional
Internal Comments
No
Yes
No
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)
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
No
Usability UseMod PmWiki ProntoWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics UseMod PmWiki ProntoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Wanted Pages
Patch
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output UseMod PmWiki ProntoWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
No
Raw Export
No
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Plugin
No
XML export
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files UseMod PmWiki ProntoWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Unknown
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Extras UseMod PmWiki ProntoWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples UseMod PmWiki ProntoWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[pagename]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
{title|url}
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!, !!, !!!
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
__under__
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
N/A
{-strikethrough-}
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<<super>> (using custom tags)
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
Images
http://url.com/pic.gif
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
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
available through custom tags
Text Indentation
: indented
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
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
+
++
+++
++++
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
#
##
###
####
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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