UseMod vs. PmWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features UseMod PmWiki DokuWiki
Version
1.0
2.3.33
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
2024-04-20 (27 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
2024-04-21 (26 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
GPL 2
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements UseMod PmWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
Datastorage UseMod PmWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
None
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod PmWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
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.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Patch
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
Development/Support UseMod PmWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features UseMod PmWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features UseMod PmWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
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
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Links UseMod PmWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features UseMod PmWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
No
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
None
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Usability UseMod PmWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics UseMod PmWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output UseMod PmWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files UseMod PmWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras UseMod PmWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples UseMod PmWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
= 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**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
@@monospace@@
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
N/A
{-strikethrough-}
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://url.com/pic.gif
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
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
Plugin
Text Indentation
: indented
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
: term : definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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