alphawiki vs. PmWiki vs. Bloomfire

General Features alphawiki PmWiki Bloomfire
Version
v.20160608
2.3.33
N/A
Last Release Date
2016-08-05 (7 years ago)
2024-04-20 (29 days ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2016-09-10 (7 years ago)
2024-04-21 (28 days ago)
2012-04-12 (12 years ago)
Author
marty alain
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Bloomfire, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
License
GNU-GPL
GPL2+
N/A
Programming Language
PHP+Javascript
PHP
N/A
Data Storage
Files
Files
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
$5/user/month
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
private users, small teams
All
Internal wiki or company wiki for teams and companies of all sizes. Enterprise to SMB to small product team and everything in between.
Hosting Features alphawiki PmWiki Bloomfire
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Unknown
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements alphawiki PmWiki Bloomfire
Operating System
probably every OS
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
N/A
Root Access
Yes
No
N/A
Webserver
Apache with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
N/A
Other Requirements
none
N/A
Datastorage alphawiki PmWiki Bloomfire
Text Files
Yes
Yes
N/A
MySQL
No
Plugin
N/A
PostgreSQL
No
No
N/A
Oracle
No
No
N/A
SQLite
No
Plugin
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
RCS
No
Plugin
N/A
Other
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam alphawiki PmWiki Bloomfire
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
N/A
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Unknown
Development/Support alphawiki PmWiki Bloomfire
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features alphawiki PmWiki Bloomfire
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features alphawiki PmWiki Bloomfire
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
No
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
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links alphawiki PmWiki Bloomfire
CamelCase
No
Optional
Unknown
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Unknown
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features alphawiki PmWiki Bloomfire
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Unknown
Textile Support
No
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Unknown
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Unknown
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Quoting
No
Plugin
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Unknown
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Scripting
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Unknown
Usability alphawiki PmWiki Bloomfire
Section Editing
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Unknown
Toolbar
No
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Statistics alphawiki PmWiki Bloomfire
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
No
Optional
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Output alphawiki PmWiki Bloomfire
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Optional
Unknown
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Unknown
Abbreviations
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files alphawiki PmWiki Bloomfire
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras alphawiki PmWiki Bloomfire
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples alphawiki PmWiki Bloomfire
Internal Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
{b I am bold}
'''bold'''
Italics Format
{i I am italic}
''italic''
Underline Format
{u I am underline}
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
{del I am line-through}
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
E = mc{sup 2}
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
'_subscript_'
Images
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
{center I am centered}
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
{hr}
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