Hatta vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features Hatta PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Version
1.6.6
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.6.0
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Radomir Dopieralski
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Python
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
family people, hackers
System Requirements Hatta PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
Mercurial
various opt. helpers
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
Datastorage Hatta PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Security/Anti-Spam Hatta PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
n/a
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Development/Support Hatta PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features Hatta PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Hatta PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Optional
No
Optional
Interface Languages
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
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
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Patch
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links Hatta PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Hatta PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
None
Some
Plugin
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Perl
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Hatta PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics Hatta PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Output Hatta PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files Hatta PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Hatta PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Hatta PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
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 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
_italic_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
n/a
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{verbatim}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
n/a
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
n/a
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
n/a
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%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
n/a
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
Text Indentation
n/a
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* list
** sublist
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
n/a
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
n/a
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
---
Depending on plugins:
----
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