ButorWiki vs. TWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features ButorWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Version
2.2.1
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2007-03-09 (19 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-07-30 (18 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Aiman Sawan
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
SMB
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
family people, hackers
System Requirements ButorWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
Tomcat 4.1 +
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
Datastorage ButorWiki TWiki Oddmuse
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
Yes
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Security/Anti-Spam ButorWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
None
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
No
nofollow
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Plugin
No
Development/Support ButorWiki TWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features ButorWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ButorWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Links ButorWiki TWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features ButorWiki TWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
All
All
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Optional
Yes
No
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Internal Macros
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Perl
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Usability ButorWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Statistics ButorWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
Yes
No
Output ButorWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files ButorWiki TWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Optional
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Optional
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Extras ButorWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples ButorWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
<a href="..."></a>
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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
<a href="..."></a>
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
...
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
<b>Bold</b>
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
<i>Italics</i>
_italic_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>Underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
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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