bLADE Wiki vs. Oddmuse vs. ikiwiki

General Features bLADE Wiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
Version
3.4.9
2.3.13
2.67
Last Release Date
2008-11-10 (17 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-11-21 (17 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
Dale Lane
Alex Schroeder
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
C#
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Users wanting to be able to view/edit their wiki from a mobile phone or PDA, with a simple wiki that needs almost no setup
family people, hackers
Anyone
System Requirements bLADE Wiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
Operating System
Windows, Windows Mobile
Anything supported by Perl
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Any, or none
Other Requirements
.NET 2 Framework
Writable data directory
Datastorage bLADE Wiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Other
No
Security/Anti-Spam bLADE Wiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
None (use your web server instead)
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
nofollow
No
No
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support bLADE Wiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features bLADE Wiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features bLADE Wiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
Plugin
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Links bLADE Wiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features bLADE Wiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Perl
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Usability bLADE Wiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Unknown
Plugin
No
Statistics bLADE Wiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Output bLADE Wiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files bLADE Wiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
No
Optional
Embedded Video
Unknown
No
Optional
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras bLADE Wiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples bLADE Wiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
Internal Link
[Link to a page]
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
[[internal]]
External Link
[http://www.linkme.com]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
+Heading
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
*bold text*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
=italic text=
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
_underlined text_
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
[|code sample|]
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough text-
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
[$image.jpg$]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
no example known
Text Indentation
> blockquote text
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
- bulleted
* one
** two
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
# numbered
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
___
Depending on plugins:
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove bLADE Wiki remove Oddmuse remove ikiwiki