| General Features | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.0.1
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2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
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1.32.2
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2.3.33
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| Last Release Date |
2024-04-24 (1 day ago)
|
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
|
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
|
2024-04-20 (5 days ago)
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| Last Update here |
2006-08-23 (17 years ago)
|
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
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2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
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2024-04-21 (4 days ago)
|
| Author |
Clay Alberty
|
Andreas Gohr
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
BSD
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GPL 2
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GPL
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GPL2+
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| Programming Language |
C#
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PHP
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PHP
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PHP
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| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files
|
Database
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free
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0
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
personal, small to medium companies
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End Users/Desktop, Education
|
All
|
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| System Requirements | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
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No
|
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
IIS 5+
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Any with PHP support
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
|
| Other Requirements |
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
|
none
|
none
|
|
| Datastorage | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Text Files |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| PostgreSQL |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
|
None
|
No
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Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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| Security/Anti-Spam | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
.NET Membership platform
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
Yes
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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
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
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| Development/Support | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
3582 ⭐
|
N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
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
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
No
|
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Links | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Optional
|
Some
|
Plugin
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
none
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Markdown Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Footnotes |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
Optional
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
|
| Content Includes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Output | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
|
| Extras | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | ProntoWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Internal Link |
[pagename] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
| External Link |
{title|url} |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
| Headlines |
!, !!, !!! |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
''italics'' |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
__under__ |
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
{+underlined+} |
| Monospace Format |
|
''monospace'' |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
@@monospace@@ |
| Strikethrough Format |
<<strike>> (using custom tags) |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
{-strikethrough-} |
| Superscript Format |
<<super>> (using custom tags) |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
| Subscript Format |
<<sub>> (using custom tags) |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
| Images |
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
| Aligning Text |
available through custom tags |
Plugin |
<center>Centered</center> |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
| Text Indentation |
multiple spaces -> |
N/A |
: indented line |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
| Bulleted Lists |
+ ++ +++ ++++ |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * 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 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
Plugin |
; term : definition |
: term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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