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'''PmWiki''' is a highly advanced and fully featured {{tag|Wiki Engine|wiki engine}}, written in {{tag|PHP}}.  It was created by Dr Patrick R. Michaud ([https://www.PmWiki.org/wiki/Profiles/Pm Pm]), and is released as {{tag|free software}} under version 2 of the {{tag|GNU General Public License}} (GPLv2).  All [[wiki]] data is stored in [https://www.PmWiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/FlatFileAdvantages flat files], and the core wiki engine can be customised by adding extensions, which PmWiki call 'recipies' that are available from their [https://www.PmWiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Cookbook 'Cookbook'].  PmWiki looks visually vaguely similar to [[:Category:MediaWiki|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 [[:Category:Wiki syntax|wiki syntax]], including [[CamelCase]] (now disabled by default), [[free link]]s, [[backlink]]s, [[interwiki]], and [[sister wiki]]; and page rendering appears to be clean and fast, and is also mobile friendly.  One {{tag|GreatFeature|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 [https://www.PmWiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/SimultaneousEdits simultaneous edits], thus preventing the dreaded '[[edit conflict]]' which occurs on more complex engines such as MediaWiki.