alphawiki vs. PmWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Bloomfire

General Features alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
Version
v.20160608
2.3.33
2.3.13
N/A
Last Release Date
2016-08-05 (7 years ago)
2024-04-20 (18 days ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2016-09-10 (7 years ago)
2024-04-21 (17 days ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2012-04-12 (12 years ago)
Author
marty alain
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Alex Schroeder
Bloomfire, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
License
GNU-GPL
GPL2+
GPL
N/A
Programming Language
PHP+Javascript
PHP
Perl
N/A
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
$5/user/month
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
private users, small teams
All
family people, hackers
Internal wiki or company wiki for teams and companies of all sizes. Enterprise to SMB to small product team and everything in between.
Hosting Features alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unknown
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
Operating System
probably every OS
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
N/A
Root Access
Yes
No
No
N/A
Webserver
Apache with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Anything supporting CGI scripts
N/A
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
N/A
Datastorage alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
N/A
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
N/A
Oracle
No
No
No
N/A
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
N/A
RCS
No
Plugin
No
N/A
Other
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
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)
N/A
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Development/Support alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
67 ⭐
N/A
Common Features alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Optional
No
Interface Languages
1
English
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
1
English
Email notification
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Plugin
N/A
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Textile Support
No
No
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Quoting
No
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Scripting
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Usability alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
Section Editing
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Toolbar
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Statistics alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Output alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Abbreviations
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
Internal Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
[[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
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
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
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
{b I am bold}
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
{i I am italic}
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
{u I am underline}
{+underlined+}
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
@@monospace@@
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
{del I am line-through}
{-strikethrough-}
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
E = mc{sup 2}
'^superscript^'
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
'_subscript_'
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
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 I am centered}
%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
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
# 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
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
: term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
{hr}
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Depending on plugins:
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