| General Features | Wiki.js | PmWiki | XoWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.5.299
|
2.3.33
|
0.113
|
| Last Release Date |
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
|
2024-04-20 (24 days ago)
|
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
|
2024-04-21 (23 days ago)
|
2009-03-13 (15 years ago)
|
| Author |
Nicolas Giard
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
AGPL-v3
|
GPL2+
|
BSD
|
| Programming Language |
Javascript
|
PHP
|
XOTcl and Tcl
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files, other, RCS
|
Files
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
Free
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Everyone
|
All
|
large and small organizations as well as individuals
|
| System Requirements | Wiki.js | PmWiki | XoWiki |
| Operating System |
All
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Webserver |
All
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
|
AOLServer
|
| Other Requirements |
Node.js
|
none
|
|
| Datastorage | Wiki.js | PmWiki | XoWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Other |
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Wiki.js | PmWiki | XoWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
|
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
|
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Development/Support | Wiki.js | PmWiki | XoWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
19117 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | Wiki.js | PmWiki | XoWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
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 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Wiki.js | PmWiki | XoWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Interface Languages |
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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 |
3
German, English, Spanish |
| Email notification |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Links | Wiki.js | PmWiki | XoWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Page Redirects |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | Wiki.js | PmWiki | XoWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Plugin
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
JS, CSS
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
Yes
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Wiki.js | PmWiki | XoWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Statistics | Wiki.js | PmWiki | XoWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Output | Wiki.js | PmWiki | XoWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| XML export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Office Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Wiki.js | PmWiki | XoWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
| Extras | Wiki.js | PmWiki | XoWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Presentations |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Wiki.js | PmWiki | XoWiki |
| Internal Link |
[Link Title](/link/to/page) |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
|
| External Link |
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org) |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
|
| Headlines |
# Header 1 ## Header 2 ### Header 3 |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
|
| Bold Format |
**Bold Text** |
'''bold''' |
|
| Italics Format |
*Italic Text* |
''italic'' |
|
| Underline Format |
<u>Underline Text</u> |
{+underlined+} |
|
| Monospace Format |
`Monospace Code` |
@@monospace@@ |
|
| Strikethrough Format |
~~Strikethrough Text~~ |
{-strikethrough-} |
|
| Superscript Format |
^Superscript Text^ |
'^superscript^' |
|
| Subscript Format |
~Subscript Text~ |
'_subscript_' |
|
| Images |
 |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
|
| Aligning Text |
|
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
|
| Text Indentation |
|
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
- Item 1 - Item 2 - Item 3 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
|
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 2. Item 2 3. Item 3 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
|
| Definition Lists |
|
: term : definition |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
---- |
|
| remove Wiki.js | remove PmWiki | remove XoWiki |