ikiwiki vs. UseMod vs. PmWiki

General Features ikiwiki UseMod PmWiki
Version
2.67
1.0
2.3.33
Last Release Date
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
2024-04-20 (9 days ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
2024-04-21 (8 days ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Clifford Adams
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
All
System Requirements ikiwiki UseMod PmWiki
Operating System
Any
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
none
Datastorage ikiwiki UseMod PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki UseMod PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
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
Yes
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Unknown
Optional
nofollow
No
Patch
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Patch
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Development/Support ikiwiki UseMod PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ikiwiki UseMod PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features ikiwiki UseMod PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
0
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
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links ikiwiki UseMod PmWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features ikiwiki UseMod PmWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Optional
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Optional
Footnotes
No
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
None
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Usability ikiwiki UseMod PmWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics ikiwiki UseMod PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Patch
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Patch
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Output ikiwiki UseMod PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Plugin
XML export
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files ikiwiki UseMod PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Optional
Embedded Flash
Optional
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Optional
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras ikiwiki UseMod PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples ikiwiki UseMod PmWiki
Internal Link
[[internal]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
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
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

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