ConnectedText vs. ikiwiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features ConnectedText ikiwiki Oddmuse
Version
5.0.0.1
2.67
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-02-19 (7 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Eduardo Mauro
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Programming Language Not relevant (completely self-contained)
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
39,95
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone doing research needing a tool with wiki capabilities for data organization and retrieval. Standalone wiki system
Anyone
family people, hackers
System Requirements ConnectedText ikiwiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Windows
Any
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
No need
Any, or none
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
Datastorage ConnectedText ikiwiki 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
Firebird
No
Security/Anti-Spam ConnectedText ikiwiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
No need
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
nofollow
No
No
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support ConnectedText ikiwiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features ConnectedText ikiwiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
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
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ConnectedText ikiwiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
5
Danish, German, English, Italian, Portuguese
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Links ConnectedText ikiwiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
No
Plugin
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features ConnectedText ikiwiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Yes
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability ConnectedText ikiwiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Plugin
Statistics ConnectedText ikiwiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Output ConnectedText ikiwiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files ConnectedText ikiwiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Optional
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras ConnectedText ikiwiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
No
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples ConnectedText ikiwiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[wiki page]]
[[wiki page|Title]]
[[internal]]
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
[[$URL:www.connectedtext.com]]
[[$URL:www.connectedtext.com|Title]]
[link text](http://example.org)
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
= Head1 =
== Head 2 ==
=== Head 3 ====
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__Underline__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{Monospace}}}
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
--Strikethrough--
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
^^Superscript^^
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
vvSubscriptvv
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
[[$IMG:Image.jpeg]]
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
~~Centered text~~
no example known
Text Indentation
: First level of indenting
:: Second level
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* First item
* Seconditem
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
1. First item
1. Second item
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
Depending on plugins:
----
remove ConnectedText remove ikiwiki remove Oddmuse