DokuWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Sputnik

General Features DokuWiki Oddmuse Sputnik
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.3.13
8.08.13
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (28 days ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Alex Schroeder
Yuri Takhteyev
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
MIT/X
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Lua
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
family people, hackers
Small teams or private users
System Requirements DokuWiki Oddmuse Sputnik
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, CGI, Xavante
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
gcc or Lua
Datastorage DokuWiki Oddmuse Sputnik
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
None
No
Git
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Oddmuse Sputnik
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Yes
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Oddmuse Sputnik
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4600 ⭐
89 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Oddmuse Sputnik
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Oddmuse Sputnik
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Interface Languages
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links DokuWiki Oddmuse Sputnik
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki Oddmuse Sputnik
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Perl
Lua, JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki Oddmuse Sputnik
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics DokuWiki Oddmuse Sputnik
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Output DokuWiki Oddmuse Sputnik
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki Oddmuse Sputnik
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras DokuWiki Oddmuse Sputnik
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Oddmuse Sputnik
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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
[[Sputnik]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org)
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
# Sputnik
Bold Format
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__
Italics Format
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_
Underline Format
__underlined__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
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
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
Plugin
no example known
Text Indentation
N/A
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
> Sputnik
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
* Sputnik
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Sputnik
Definition Lists
Plugin
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
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