Wiki CSharp .NET vs. PmWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. Hatta

General Features Wiki CSharp .NET PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Version
0.4.2
2.6.0
2.67
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2009-12-31 (16 years ago)
2026-05-16 (29 days ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-07 (16 years ago)
2026-05-16 (29 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
Author
Pier-Luc Duchaine
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL V3
GPL2+
GPL
GPL v2
Programming Language
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
PHP
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, small and big team
All
Anyone
System Requirements Wiki CSharp .NET PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Operating System
Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Any, or none
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
none
Mercurial
Datastorage Wiki CSharp .NET PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki CSharp .NET PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
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.
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
n/a
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support Wiki CSharp .NET PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wiki CSharp .NET PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
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
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Wiki CSharp .NET PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
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
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Links Wiki CSharp .NET PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
CamelCase
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Syntax Features Wiki CSharp .NET PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Optional
None
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Quoting
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
JavaScript
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Usability Wiki CSharp .NET PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Section Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Unknown
Optional
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Statistics Wiki CSharp .NET PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Output Wiki CSharp .NET PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
XML export
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wiki CSharp .NET PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
File Attachments
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
Embedded Video
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras Wiki CSharp .NET PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiki CSharp .NET PmWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Internal Link
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[internal]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
External Link
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[link text](http://example.org)
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
Headlines
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
*Bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
=Italic=
''italic''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italic//
Underline Format
_Underline_
{+underlined+}
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
n/a
Monospace Format
[|Monospace formate|]
@@monospace@@
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
-Strike-
{-strikethrough-}
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
n/a
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
n/a
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
n/a
Images
[$Image file$]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
n/a
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
n/a
Bulleted Lists
-list1
--list2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* list
** sublist
Numbered Lists
#list1
##list2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
n/a
Definition Lists
: term : definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
n/a
Horizontal Rule
___
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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