Hatta vs. TWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PmWiki

General Features Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Version
1.6.6
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.13
2.6.0
Last Release Date
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
Author
Radomir Dopieralski
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Alex Schroeder
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
Python
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
family people, hackers
All
System Requirements Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
Mercurial
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
none
Datastorage Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Optional
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
n/a
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
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
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
nofollow
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Development/Support Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
89 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
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
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
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Comments
No
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Internal Comments
No
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Perl
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Output Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media and Files Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
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
[[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|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
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
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
_italic_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
n/a
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
{{{verbatim}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
n/a
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
n/a
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
n/a
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
'_subscript_'
Images
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.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
n/a
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
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
n/a
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* list
** sublist
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
n/a
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
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
n/a
$ Term: Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
Depending on plugins:
----
----
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