Wiki CSharp .NET vs. Wala Wiki vs. PmWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki ikiwiki
Version
0.4.2
1.1.7
2.6.0
2.67
Last Release Date
2009-12-31 (16 years ago)
2026-03-14 (3 months ago)
2026-05-16 (29 days ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-07 (16 years ago)
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
2026-05-16 (29 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
Pier-Luc Duchaine
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL V3
Public Domain
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
Perl
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
0
Development status
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, small and big team
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
All
Anyone
System Requirements Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
Windows
Linux, *BSD
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any that supports basic CGI.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Any, or none
Other Requirements
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
none
Datastorage Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
diffs
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
No
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
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.
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
No
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
No
Development/Support Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki ikiwiki
Preview
No
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
Email notification
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
All
None
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
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
Content Includes
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Unknown
No
Optional
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Output Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
No
Plugin
Optional
Embedded Video
Unknown
No
Plugin
Optional
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
LinkDump, [link dump]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[internal]]
External Link
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
= headline =
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

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

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
-Strike-
{-strikethrough-}
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
[$Image file$]
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
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)
Aligning Text
%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 text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
-list1
--list2
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
* 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
Numbered Lists
#list1
##list2
# One
# Two
# Three
# 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
Definition Lists
: term : definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
___
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove Wiki CSharp .NET remove Wala Wiki remove PmWiki remove ikiwiki