MediaWiki vs. PmWiki vs. ProntoWiki

General Features MediaWiki PmWiki ProntoWiki
Version
1.32.2
2.3.33
1.0.1
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-20 (6 days ago)
2024-04-25 (1 day ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (5 days ago)
2006-08-23 (17 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Clay Alberty
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
C#
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
System Requirements MediaWiki PmWiki ProntoWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
IIS 5+
Other Requirements
none
none
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Datastorage MediaWiki PmWiki ProntoWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Unknown
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Unknown
Oracle
Yes
No
Unknown
SQLite
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Plugin
Unknown
Other
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki PmWiki ProntoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
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.
.NET Membership platform
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support MediaWiki PmWiki ProntoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki PmWiki ProntoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features MediaWiki PmWiki ProntoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Unknown
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
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Optional
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links MediaWiki PmWiki ProntoWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Optional
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features MediaWiki PmWiki ProntoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Unknown
Textile Support
No
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Quoting
No
Plugin
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
No
Usability MediaWiki PmWiki ProntoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics MediaWiki PmWiki ProntoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
No
Output MediaWiki PmWiki ProntoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki PmWiki ProntoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras MediaWiki PmWiki ProntoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki PmWiki ProntoWiki
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]]
[pagename]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
{title|url}
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!, !!, !!!
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
__under__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<<super>> (using custom tags)
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
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
available through custom tags
Text Indentation
: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
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
+
++
+++
++++
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
#
##
###
####
Definition Lists
; term : definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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