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PmWiki
Original
author(s)
Developer(s)
Patrick R. Michaud [1]
PmWiki [2]
Stable release 2.2.16 / May 10, 2010
Preview release SVN only / nightly
Operating system Cross platform
Platform PHP
Type Wiki
License GNU General Public License
Website http:/ / www. pmwiki. org
PmWiki is wiki software written by Patrick R. Michaud in the PHP programming language.
It is free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Design focus
PmWiki is designed to be easy to install and customize as an engine for creating professional web sites with one to
any number of content authors. The software focuses on ease-of-use, so people with little IT or wiki experience will
be able to put it to use. The software is also designed to be extensible and customizable.
The PmWiki wiki markup shares similarities with MediaWiki (used by Wikipedia). The PmWiki markup engine is
highly customizable, allowing adding, modifying or disabling markup rules, and it can support other markup
languages. As an example, the Creole specifications can be enabled. [3]
Features
Content storage
PmWiki uses regular files to store content. Each page of the wiki is stored in its own file on the web server. Pages
are stored in ASCII format and may be edited directly by the wiki administrator. According to the author, "For the
standard operations (view, edit, page revisions), holding the information in flat files is clearly faster than accessing
them in a database..." [4]
PmWiki is designed to be able to store and retrieve the pages' text and metadata on various systems and formats. It
does not support databases in its default installation. However, via plug-ins, PmWiki can already use MySQL or
SQLite databases for data storage.
PmWiki supports "attachments" (uploads: images or other files) to its wiki pages. The uploads can be attached to a
group of pages (default), individually to each page, or to the whole wiki, depending on the content needs and
structure. There are PmWiki recipes allowing an easier management of the uploaded files, e.g. deletion or
thumbnail/gallery creation.