| General Features | PmWiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.3.33
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1.32.2
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0.56
|
| Last Release Date |
2024-04-20 (27 days ago)
|
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
|
2012-04-01 (12 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2024-04-21 (26 days ago)
|
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
|
2012-07-16 (11 years ago)
|
| Author |
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Jaap Karssenberg
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL2+
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
Python
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
All
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Private users, small teams
|
| System Requirements | PmWiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux, Windows, OSX
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
|
Any with PHP support
|
None
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
none
|
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
|
| Datastorage | PmWiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
No
|
Text Files with index in SQLite
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | PmWiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
|
Yes
|
File permissions
|
| Host Blocking |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | PmWiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| # 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 | PmWiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | PmWiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
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 |
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 |
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
No
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Links | PmWiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | PmWiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| HTML Tags |
Plugin
|
Some
|
None
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
none
|
| CREOLE support |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
Optional
|
None
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Usability | PmWiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | PmWiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Wanted Pages |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Output | PmWiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| RSS Feeds |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | PmWiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| File Attachments |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Keywords
|
No
|
| Extras | PmWiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | PmWiki | MediaWiki | Zim |
| Internal Link |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage |
| External Link |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org ftp://somehost/share \\host\share\.. |
| Headlines |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
=== Heading === |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
//italic// |
| Underline Format |
{+underlined+} |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
@@monospace@@ |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
``monospace`` |
| Strikethrough Format |
{-strikethrough-} |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
~~strike~~ |
| Superscript Format |
'^superscript^' |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^{sup} |
| Subscript Format |
'_subscript_' |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
_{sub} |
| Images |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
{{./image.png}} |
| Aligning Text |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
<center>Centered</center> |
not implemented |
| Text Indentation |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
: indented line |
indent with tabs |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* List item * sub items * with indent |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. List item a. with sub items b. ... |
| Definition Lists |
: term : definition |
; term : definition |
not implemented |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
---- |
not implemented |
| remove PmWiki | remove MediaWiki | remove Zim |