bLADE Wiki vs. Sputnik vs. Oddmuse vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features bLADE Wiki Sputnik Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
Version
3.4.9
8.08.13
2.3.13
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2008-11-10 (17 years ago)
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-11-21 (17 years ago)
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Dale Lane
Yuri Takhteyev
Alex Schroeder
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
MIT/X
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
C#
Lua
Perl
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
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
Small teams or private users
family people, hackers
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements bLADE Wiki Sputnik Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Windows, Windows Mobile
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
Anything supported by Perl
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Apache, CGI, Xavante
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
.NET 2 Framework
gcc or Lua
Writable data directory
A common browser
Datastorage bLADE Wiki Sputnik Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
Git
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam bLADE Wiki Sputnik Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
No
Yes
None (use your web server instead)
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
No
nofollow
No
No
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
No
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support bLADE Wiki Sputnik Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
8590 ⭐
Common Features bLADE Wiki Sputnik Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features bLADE Wiki Sputnik Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
0
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Comments
No
No
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Conflict Handling
None
None
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links bLADE Wiki Sputnik Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features bLADE Wiki Sputnik Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
Lua, JavaScript
Perl
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability bLADE Wiki Sputnik Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Statistics bLADE Wiki Sputnik Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Output bLADE Wiki Sputnik Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Unknown
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files bLADE Wiki Sputnik Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Extras bLADE Wiki Sputnik Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples bLADE Wiki Sputnik Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[Link to a page]
[[Sputnik]]
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
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[http://www.linkme.com]
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org)
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
+Heading
# Sputnik
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
*bold text*
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
=italic text=
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
_underlined text_
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
[|code sample|]
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough text-
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
~~subscript~~
Images
[$image.jpg$]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
no example known
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
> blockquote text
> Sputnik
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
- bulleted
* Sputnik
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# numbered
1. Sputnik
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
___
- - -
Depending on plugins:
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