Since PmWiki is a development tool, as any other wiki, it has three types of users:
- Readers, who merely browse the information present as they surf any other web page and may interact only with forms rendered as part of wiki pages,
- Authors, who start interacting with the pages by editing them (pmwiki allows guest authoring as well as several forms of authentication
- Admins, who install pmwiki, maintain it, and have rights to determine how it works and who can access which areas
For more details, see audiences