MediaWiki vs. PmWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. XWiki

General Features MediaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki XWiki
Version
1.32.2
2.3.33
phpwiki-1.3.14
16.2.0
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-20 (7 days ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (6 days ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
Any
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features MediaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements MediaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki XWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
none
none
various opt. helpers
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage MediaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki XWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Other
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Yes
Development/Support MediaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 PmWiki PhpWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
No
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
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Links MediaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki XWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins, templates, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability MediaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics MediaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output MediaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files MediaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras MediaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples MediaWiki PmWiki PhpWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>striked through</strike>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
Aligning Text
<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
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
or
- list
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term : definition
: term : definition
Term:<def>
def
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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