Oddmuse vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. UseMod

General Features Oddmuse DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Version
2.3.13
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
1.0
Last Release Date
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Clifford Adams
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements Oddmuse DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
none
Datastorage Oddmuse DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
No
None
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Patch
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Yes
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support Oddmuse DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
67 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Oddmuse DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
0
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links Oddmuse DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Oddmuse DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Optional
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Perl
Optional, PHP
Optional
None
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Usability Oddmuse DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Oddmuse DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Output Oddmuse DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Oddmuse DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Extras Oddmuse DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
No
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Oddmuse DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Internal Link
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
N/A
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://url.com/pic.gif
Aligning Text
no example known
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
N/A
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
N/A
: indented line
: indented
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Plugin
; term : definition
;Term:Definition
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
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