Category:PmWiki

PmWiki Changes • [No WikiNode] • About • Documentation • [No Source code] Main topic: Wiki engine Founded by: Dr Patrick R. Michaud (founder) Owner / CEO: Dr Patrick R. Michaud (owner) Interface language: Multilingual Programming language: PHP Software license: GNU General Public License Status: Active

PmWiki is a highly advanced and fully featured wiki engine, written in PHP. It was created by Dr Patrick R. Michaud (Pm), and is released as free software under version 2 of the GNU General Public License (GPLv2). All wiki data is stored in flat files, and the core wiki engine can be customised by adding extensions, which PmWiki call 'recipies' that are available from their 'Cookbook'. PmWiki looks visually vaguely similar to MediaWiki, having a sidebar for wiki navigation, and individual page commands (view, edit, history, print) at the top right (but without 'tabs'). PmWiki supports most of the established wiki syntax, including CamelCase (now disabled by default), free links, backlinks, interwiki, and sister wiki; and page rendering appears to be clean and fast, and is also mobile friendly. One great feature of PmWiki is that no existing data is lost or corrupted during separate simultaneous attempts at editing the same page; PmWiki will automatically merge these attempted simultaneous edits, thus preventing the dreaded 'edit conflict' which occurs on more complex engines such as MediaWiki.

PmWiki is a registered trademark of Patrick R. Michaud. Since January 2009, lead development of PmWiki has been taken over by Petko Yotov.

The wiki homepage for PmWiki.org is PmWiki, and its Chinese localised version is PmWikiZhCn. PmWiki is available in 38 different interface languages. There is a page for all PmWiki users, along with a PmWiki users map (originally using Google Maps, now using OpenStreetMap), and the success stories page highlights vibrant PmWiki installs with extended descriptions along with (sometimes) a screenshot. The failure stories highlights some of the few hurdles of PmWiki that some users had difficulties with.

PmWiki size information

add /index.php/Site/Search?q=/ at the end of the URL – eg. http://YourWikiURL.org/index.php/Site/Search?q=/

External links

• View a detailed feature list of PmWiki on the WikiMatrix wiki engine comparison wiki-site.
• Patrick Michaud (Pm) wiki homepage — Patrick Michaud (Pm) at PMichaud.com
  • Dr Patrick R. Michaud resume, October 2013 (PDF)
• PmWiki.org mailing lists (all) — PmWiki at PmWiki.org
  • pmwiki-users Mailman mailing list
• Features of PmWiki
• PmWiki philosophy
• Design notes
• Release notes
• Text formatting rules
• Wiki styles
• Markup master index
• Wiki Group – equivalent to namespaces in MediaWiki
  • Wiki Group motivation
  • List of all 'Wiki Groups' on PmWiki.org
• PmWiki — at the English Wikipedia

The following wikis in this category are, or were powered by the PmWiki wiki engine.