| General Features | Wala Wiki | UseMod | PmWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.1.7
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1.2.2
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2.6.0
|
| Last Release Date |
2026-03-09 (3 months ago)
|
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
|
2026-05-16 (24 days ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
|
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
|
2026-05-16 (24 days ago)
|
| Author |
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
|
Clifford Adams
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Public Domain
|
GPL
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GPL2+
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| Programming Language |
Perl
|
Perl
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Files
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
|
All
|
|
| System Requirements | Wala Wiki | UseMod | PmWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, *BSD
|
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any that supports basic CGI.
|
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
|
| Other Requirements |
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
|
none
|
|
| Datastorage | Wala Wiki | UseMod | PmWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
diffs
|
No
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Wala Wiki | UseMod | PmWiki |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
|
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
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | Wala Wiki | UseMod | 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 | Wala Wiki | UseMod | PmWiki |
| Preview |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
To current
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Wala Wiki | UseMod | PmWiki |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
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 |
| Email notification |
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
No
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Search |
Not available
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Links | Wala Wiki | UseMod | PmWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Wala Wiki | UseMod | PmWiki |
| HTML Tags |
None
|
Some
|
Plugin
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
None
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
|
| Content Includes |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | Wala Wiki | UseMod | PmWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Wala Wiki | UseMod | PmWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Output | Wala Wiki | UseMod | PmWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
No
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | Wala Wiki | UseMod | PmWiki |
| File Attachments |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | Wala Wiki | UseMod | PmWiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | Wala Wiki | UseMod | PmWiki |
| Internal Link |
LinkDump, [link dump] |
|
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
| External Link |
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3] |
|
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
| Headlines |
= headline = |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === ==== Level 4 ==== ===== Level 5 ===== ====== Level 6 ====== |
! Level 1 !!#anchor Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
| Bold Format |
'''bolded''' |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
''italicized'' |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
|
<u>underline</u> |
{+underlined+} |
| Monospace Format |
monospaced. |
<tt>for monospace text</tt> |
@@monospace@@ |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
N/A |
{-strikethrough-} |
| Superscript Format |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
| Subscript Format |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
| Images |
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include. |
http://url.com/pic.gif |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
| 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 |
| Text Indentation |
:Block-quoted text. |
: indented |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Bullet point * Bullet point |
* 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 |
# One # Two # Three |
# 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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