MediaWiki vs. PBwiki vs. PmWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features MediaWiki PBwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Version
1.32.2
N/A
2.3.33
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
N/A
2024-04-20 (15 days ago)
2020-04-19 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2024-04-21 (14 days ago)
2020-04-20 (4 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
PBworks
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
N/A
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
N/A
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
N/A
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
Determined by Solution Needs
0
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Business Enterprises
All
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Hosting Features MediaWiki PBwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
No limit
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
No limit
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
System Requirements MediaWiki PBwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
N/A
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
N/A
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
none
N/A
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage MediaWiki PBwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
No
N/A
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
N/A
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
No
No
Oracle
Yes
N/A
No
No
SQLite
Yes
N/A
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
No
RCS
No
N/A
Plugin
No
Other
No
N/A
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki PBwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
N/A
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
No
Development/Support MediaWiki PBwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features MediaWiki PBwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki PBwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
0
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
Patch
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
N/A
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links MediaWiki PBwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Optional
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features MediaWiki PBwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional
Javascript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability MediaWiki PBwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Statistics MediaWiki PBwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Analysis
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Output MediaWiki PBwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files MediaWiki PBwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras MediaWiki PBwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples MediaWiki PBwiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.externallink.com]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italics''
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>monospace</code>
@@monospace@@
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
-strikethrough-
{-strikethrough-}
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
<left>, <center>, <right>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
: indented line
Indented block
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Number #1
# Number #2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
Definition Lists
; term : definition
<dl>
</dl>
: term : definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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