PmWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features PmWiki Oddmuse
Version
2.3.32
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2024-03-23 (27 days ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-03-24 (26 days ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
family people, hackers
System Requirements PmWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
Datastorage PmWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Development/Support PmWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features PmWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Links PmWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Usability PmWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Optional
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Statistics PmWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Output PmWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
No
Media and Files PmWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Optional
Optional
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras PmWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Syntax Examples PmWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
no example known
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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