ikiwiki vs. PmWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features ikiwiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Version
2.67
2.3.33
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
2024-04-20 (3 days ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
2024-04-21 (2 days ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
All
family people, hackers
System Requirements ikiwiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
Datastorage ikiwiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support ikiwiki PmWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features ikiwiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ikiwiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Links ikiwiki PmWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features ikiwiki PmWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Perl
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability ikiwiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Optional
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Statistics ikiwiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output ikiwiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files ikiwiki PmWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Optional
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Optional
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras ikiwiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples ikiwiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[internal]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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
[link text](http://example.org)
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
@@monospace@@
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
{-strikethrough-}
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
'^superscript^'
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
'_subscript_'
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
no example known
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
: term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
----
Depending on plugins:
----
remove ikiwiki remove PmWiki remove Oddmuse