Wikepage vs. ikiwiki vs. PBwiki vs. UseMod

General Features Wikepage ikiwiki PBwiki UseMod
Version
2008.1
2.67
N/A
1.2.2
Last Release Date
2008-10-14 (17 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
N/A
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-24 (17 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
Author
Jose Carlos Medeiros
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
PBworks
Clifford Adams
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
N/A
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
N/A
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
N/A
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Determined by Solution Needs
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Private users, small groups
Anyone
Business Enterprises
Hosting Features Wikepage ikiwiki PBwiki UseMod
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
No limit
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
No limit
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
System Requirements Wikepage ikiwiki PBwiki UseMod
Operating System
Platform Independent
Any
N/A
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Server Independent
Any, or none
N/A
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
n/a
N/A
Datastorage Wikepage ikiwiki PBwiki UseMod
Text Files
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
MySQL
No
No
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
N/A
No
Oracle
No
No
N/A
No
SQLite
No
No
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
No
RCS
No
Yes
N/A
No
Other
N/A
No
Security/Anti-Spam Wikepage ikiwiki PBwiki UseMod
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
N/A
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Patch
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
Patch
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support Wikepage ikiwiki PBwiki UseMod
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
N/A
No
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wikepage ikiwiki PBwiki UseMod
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Wikepage ikiwiki PBwiki UseMod
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
0
1
English
1
English
0
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
No
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
N/A
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Links Wikepage ikiwiki PBwiki UseMod
CamelCase
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Wikepage ikiwiki PBwiki UseMod
HTML Tags
None
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
No
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Javascript
None
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Usability Wikepage ikiwiki PBwiki UseMod
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
No
No
No
Statistics Wikepage ikiwiki PBwiki UseMod
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
No
Optional
No
Output Wikepage ikiwiki PBwiki UseMod
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wikepage ikiwiki PBwiki UseMod
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Optional
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras Wikepage ikiwiki PBwiki UseMod
Calendar
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wikepage ikiwiki PBwiki UseMod
Internal Link
[Link_type]
[http://externallink.com]
[[internal]]
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
External Link
[http://externallink.com/|click]
[http://externallink.com/|picture.gif]
[link text](http://example.org)
[http://www.externallink.com]
Headlines
! Biggest
!! Smaller
!!! Smallest
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Bold Format
**Bold**
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''Italic''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italics''
''italic''
Underline Format
__Underline__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
With a space in front of the text
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
<code>monospace</code>
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Strikethrough Format
n/a
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
-strikethrough-
N/A
Superscript Format
n/a
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
n/a
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[image.gif]
[http://externalimage.com/image.gif]
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
http://url.com/pic.gif
Aligning Text
n/a
<left>, <center>, <right>
N/A
Text Indentation
n/a
Indented block
: indented
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet1
* Bullet2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
n/a
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# Number #1
# Number #2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
<dl>
</dl>
;Term:Definition
Horizontal Rule
---
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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remove Wikepage remove ikiwiki remove PBwiki remove UseMod