| General Features | CanvasWiki | Oddmuse | Wiki on a Stick | Wikidot |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.2.101
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2.3.13
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0.12.0
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|
| Last Release Date |
2006-06-15 (19 years ago)
|
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
|
2010-06-21 (15 years ago)
|
|
| Last Update here |
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
|
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
|
2010-08-24 (15 years ago)
|
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
|
| Author |
Raymond Camden
|
Alex Schroeder
|
legolas558
|
Michal Frackowiak
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Apache
|
GPL
|
GPLv2
|
AGPLv3
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| Programming Language |
ColdFusion
|
Perl
|
JavaScript
|
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files
|
Files
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
free
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Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
|
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Mildly technical
|
family people, hackers
|
Advanced End Users
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companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
|
| Hosting Features | CanvasWiki | Oddmuse | Wiki on a Stick | Wikidot |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
no limit
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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max uploaded file size limit
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
by Terms Of Service
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| System Requirements | CanvasWiki | Oddmuse | Wiki on a Stick | Wikidot |
| Operating System |
Windows, Linux, Solaris
|
Anything supported by Perl
|
OS Independent (Browser Application)
|
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS
|
Anything supporting CGI scripts
|
||
| Other Requirements |
ColdFusion MX
|
Writable data directory
|
JavaScript-capable browser
|
|
| Datastorage | CanvasWiki | Oddmuse | Wiki on a Stick | Wikidot |
| Text Files |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| PostgreSQL |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| SQLite |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| RCS |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Other |
Access, SQL Server
|
No
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Self-modifying XHTML file, can export into XHTML and WSIF
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | CanvasWiki | Oddmuse | Wiki on a Stick | Wikidot |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
None (use your web server instead)
|
Supports per-page AES encryption
|
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| Host Blocking |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Development/Support | CanvasWiki | Oddmuse | Wiki on a Stick | Wikidot |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
89 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | CanvasWiki | Oddmuse | Wiki on a Stick | Wikidot |
| Preview |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Restricted by Age
|
None
|
Unlimited
|
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
No
|
Between all
|
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | CanvasWiki | Oddmuse | Wiki on a Stick | Wikidot |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
2
English, Italian |
2
English, Polish |
| Email notification |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
No
|
Threaded
|
|
| Categories |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Links | CanvasWiki | Oddmuse | Wiki on a Stick | Wikidot |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | CanvasWiki | Oddmuse | Wiki on a Stick | Wikidot |
| HTML Tags |
Plugin
|
All
|
None
|
|
| Math formulas |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Perl
|
JavaScript
|
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
|
|
| Content Includes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Usability | CanvasWiki | Oddmuse | Wiki on a Stick | Wikidot |
| Section Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | CanvasWiki | Oddmuse | Wiki on a Stick | Wikidot |
| Recent Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Output | CanvasWiki | Oddmuse | Wiki on a Stick | Wikidot |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Themes & Skins |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | CanvasWiki | Oddmuse | Wiki on a Stick | Wikidot |
| File Attachments |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
|
| Extras | CanvasWiki | Oddmuse | Wiki on a Stick | Wikidot |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | CanvasWiki | Oddmuse | Wiki on a Stick | Wikidot |
| Internal Link |
|
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 |
[[WoaS test page]] |
[[[page-name]]] or [[[page-name|anchor]]] |
| External Link |
|
http://example.com/ [http://example.com/] → [1] optional, default on: [http://example.com/ text] → text Depending on plugins: [text](http://example.com/) → text |
[[http://stickwiki.sf.net/|WoaS Official Website]] |
http://www.wikimatrix.org or [http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix] |
| Headlines |
|
Depending on plugins: ## two ### three == two == === three == section ======= subsection ---------- |
= Header 1 == Header 2 === Header 3 |
+++ headline level 3 |
| Bold Format |
|
Depending on plugins: *bold* **bold* '''bold''' |
*bold text* |
**bold text** |
| Italics Format |
|
Depending on plugins: *italic* /italic/ //italic// ''italic'' |
/italics text/ |
//italic text// |
| Underline Format |
|
Depending on plugins: _underline_ __underline__ |
_underlined text_ |
__underlined text__ |
| Monospace Format |
|
Depending on plugins: `mono` ##mono## [code]mono[/code] <tt>mono</tt> <code>mono</code> |
{{{this text will not render wiki syntax}}} |
{{monospaced text}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
via bbCode plugin: [s]strike through[/s] |
|
--strikethrough text-- |
| Superscript Format |
|
via bbCode plugin: [sup]superscript[/sup] |
|
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
|
via bbCode plugin: [sub]subscript[/sub] |
|
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
|
http://example.com/pic.jpg Depending on plugins: [[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants  |
[[Image::woas.png]] |
[[image src="..."]] |
| Aligning Text |
|
no example known |
|
= Centered line |
| Text Indentation |
|
Depending on plugins: > text [quote] text [/quote] : one :: two |
|
> First level of indentation >> Second level of indentation. |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* one ** two |
* element 1 * element 2 * element 3 |
* element 1 * element 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
|
Depending on plugins: 1. one 2. two # one ## two |
* element 1 * element 2 * element 3 |
# element 1 # element 1 |
| Definition Lists |
|
Depending on plugins: ; term: definition |
|
: item : description |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
Depending on plugins: ---- |
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| remove CanvasWiki | remove Oddmuse | remove Wiki on a Stick | remove Wikidot |