Hatta vs. PhpWiki vs. TWiki vs. UseMod vs. Oddmuse

General Features Hatta PhpWiki TWiki UseMod Oddmuse
Version
1.6.6
phpwiki-1.3.14
TWiki-6.1.0
1.2.2
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Radomir Dopieralski
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Clifford Adams
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
family people, hackers
System Requirements Hatta PhpWiki TWiki UseMod Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
Mercurial
various opt. helpers
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
Datastorage Hatta PhpWiki TWiki UseMod Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Other
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam Hatta PhpWiki TWiki UseMod Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
n/a
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Optional
CAPTCHA
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support Hatta PhpWiki TWiki UseMod Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
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 TWiki UseMod 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
No
Yes
Special Features Hatta PhpWiki TWiki UseMod Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
No
Unknown
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Comments
No
Plugin
Threaded
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Namespaces
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Links Hatta PhpWiki TWiki UseMod Oddmuse
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Hatta PhpWiki TWiki UseMod Oddmuse
HTML Tags
None
Some
All
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Yes
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
plugins, templates, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
None
Perl
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Usability Hatta PhpWiki TWiki UseMod Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Patch
Yes
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Statistics Hatta PhpWiki TWiki UseMod Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Output Hatta PhpWiki TWiki UseMod Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files Hatta PhpWiki TWiki UseMod Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras Hatta PhpWiki TWiki UseMod Oddmuse
Calendar
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Hatta PhpWiki TWiki UseMod Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
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://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
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= 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>
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{verbatim}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
n/a
<strike>striked through</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
N/A
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
n/a
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
n/a
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://url.com/pic.gif
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>

| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
N/A
no example known
Text Indentation
n/a
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

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

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* list
** sublist
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
n/a
# list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# 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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