Cost
| Free software licensed under the GNU GPL
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User support
| On website, eg FAQ, troubleshooting guide, specific error messages descriptions, and by mailing lists (also in German, Spanish, French)
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Reviews
| Favorable
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System
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Server Requirements
| PHP 5.2 recommended, 4.3.x minimum; can run in safe mode. See web hosts and the Standalone recipe. PmWiki runs with PHP5 but you need to deactivate MMCache in php.ini (MMcache is a section in this file)
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Page storage
| Flat files; no need for a database. Can handle thousands of pages. See Flat File Advantages.
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Upgrades
| By simply copying new version files or export from the Subversion repository
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Addons
| There are nearly 400 Cookbook:. recipes.
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Security
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SPAM protection
| By blocking words, IP addresses (option), and by limiting the quantity of non-approved URLs (option), by encrypting the email address (addon)
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Passwords
| Page, group or site based, see also passwords administration
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User authentication
| Available as an option (AuthUser) or an addon (UserAuth).
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Features
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Features at a glance
| and a detailed list of Features
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Page editing
| Similar to others wikis. Has a button bar and Preview capability. Handles simultaneous edits. Optional save-as-draft feature. Addon for spell checking
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Page history
| History pages include Restore links. Configurable number of days and number of revisions of history.
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Free links and WikiWords
| Wiki Word links are an option in version 2.1. In previous releases they were enabled by default.
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Intersites links (InterMap)
| Configurable by the administrator or defined in the Site.InterMap? page.
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Groups and hierarchy
| One level only, handles menus and styling by groups, see Wiki architecture
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Categories
| Organise and find related pages with special Category markup.
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Navigation trails
| Allow wiki authors to create "trails" through sequences of pages in the wiki.
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Search tools
| Search the entire site or the current group. Administrator may exclude pages from appearing in search results. Pre-defined searches are also available.
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Email-notification of revised pages
| Option, by admin, site based: enable Notify in the local/config of the page(s) you want to monitor.
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Web Feeds
| Optional RSS, Atom, and Dublin Core syndication feeds as well as feed links to enable autodiscovery of the feeds
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Podcasting
| Web feed enclosures are supported.
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Publish as static pages
| Available as Cookbook recipe Cookbook.StaticPages?
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International versions
| See Other languages. Handles accented characters and UTF-8.
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Page renaming
| addon
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Site Map
| Available via the pagelists directive.
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Backlinks
| Available since version 2.0.beta33
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Layout
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Skins
| By admin, can be table or CSS based, addon for switching by users and interactive configuration
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Layout modifications
| By admin and by user, see group headers
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Printable layout
| Suppress menu, make link list and miscellaneous reformatting
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Style and custom markup
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Tables
| Tables and Table Directives
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Table Edit
| Addon - table editor
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Page table of contents
| Addon - see also numbered headers
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Inclusion in page
| Of other pages (part or complete)
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Anchors
| In same or other page
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User uploaded attachments
| Option to set
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Images resizing and galleries
| By addons, see also the category images
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Forms
| Forms may be embedded in wiki pages.
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In browser drawing edit
| By addon, need java enabled on browser.
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User preferences
| Option. See also the SkinChange add-on.
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HTML details
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Handles HTML meta informations
| Keywords (site, group or page based), automatic noindex, nofollow for utility pages
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HTML compatibility
| XHTML 1.0 transitional, may differ for miscellaneous skins
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allow embedding of html in wiki pages
| Cookbook:enable HTML
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Browser caching
| Option
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Nice URLs?
| See also $EnablePathInfo in LayoutVariables
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Hide e-mail addresses?
| Addon
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Miscellaneous addons
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Calendar
| Each date becomes a wiki page. There are two possible implementations: WikiCalendar and PmCalendar. CopyPasteCalendar? is another option that relies solely upon core PmWiki features.
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Latex in Wiki?
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Publish trails
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Forum
| There are 2 addons: Forum and SimpleForum
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Guestbook
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For the full list ...
| See the Cookbook recipes.
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Administration details
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Wiki farms
| To have multiple wikis with a single installation of the wiki engine
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Missing and orphan pages search
| Option - You can also list orphan and missing attachments (addon)
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Handling of features requests and bug reports
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Lacking (yet)
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allow php scripts inside wiki
| like gunther.sf.net does - nah, too much of a security issue. A recipe for that is easy to implement... but who would be crazy enough to do it? ;)
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