GWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PmWiki

General Features GWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Version
2.4.0
2.3.13
2.5.4
Last Release Date
2018-06-15 (7 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2025-12-06 (11 days ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (7 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2025-12-06 (11 days ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Alex Schroeder
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
Java
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
family people, hackers
All
System Requirements GWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
Writable data directory
none
Datastorage GWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
Google Datastore
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
None (use your web server instead)
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Development/Support GWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
7 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features GWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
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 GWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
2
German, English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links GWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features GWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Perl
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability GWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Statistics GWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Output GWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
No
Plugin
Media and Files GWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras GWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
No
Syntax Examples GWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
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
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_Italic format_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
'_subscript_'
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
no example known
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
----
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