| General Features | ikiwiki | Instiki | Oddmuse |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.67
|
0.30.0
|
2.3.13
|
| Last Release Date |
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
|
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
|
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
|
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
|
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
|
| Author |
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
|
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
|
Alex Schroeder
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
Ruby's
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
Perl
|
Ruby on Rails
|
Perl
|
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
free
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Anyone
|
general, education
|
family people, hackers
|
| System Requirements | ikiwiki | Instiki | Oddmuse |
| Operating System |
Any
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
|
Anything supported by Perl
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any, or none
|
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
|
Anything supporting CGI scripts
|
| Other Requirements |
Ruby 2.0-2.6
|
Writable data directory
|
|
| Datastorage | ikiwiki | Instiki | Oddmuse |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
|
No
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | ikiwiki | Instiki | Oddmuse |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
|
None (use your web server instead)
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Development/Support | ikiwiki | Instiki | Oddmuse |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
506 ⭐
|
88 ⭐
|
| Common Features | ikiwiki | Instiki | Oddmuse |
| Preview |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
|
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
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | ikiwiki | Instiki | Oddmuse |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
1
English |
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
No
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Links | ikiwiki | Instiki | Oddmuse |
| CamelCase |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | ikiwiki | Instiki | Oddmuse |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
All
|
Plugin
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
|
None
|
Perl
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Usability | ikiwiki | Instiki | Oddmuse |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Statistics | ikiwiki | Instiki | Oddmuse |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Output | ikiwiki | Instiki | Oddmuse |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| RSS Feeds |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Media and Files | ikiwiki | Instiki | Oddmuse |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | ikiwiki | Instiki | Oddmuse |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | ikiwiki | Instiki | Oddmuse |
| Internal Link |
[[internal]] |
[[Some Page]] [[Some Page|anchor text]] [[Some Page#anchor]] [[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]] |
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) |
[another site](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 |
| Headlines |
Two syntaxes: # heading 1 ## heading 2 ### heading 3 heading 1 ========= heading 2 --------- |
#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__ |
**bold** |
Depending on plugins: *bold* **bold* '''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
_italic_, *italic* |
Depending on plugins: *italic* /italic/ //italic// ''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
underlined
{: style='text-decoration: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> |
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'} |
via bbCode plugin: [s]strike through[/s] |
| Superscript Format |
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
via bbCode plugin: [sup]superscript[/sup] |
| Subscript Format |
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
via bbCode plugin: [sub]subscript[/sub] |
| Images |
  |
, [[image.jpg|alt text:pic]] |
http://example.com/pic.jpg Depending on plugins: [[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants  |
| Aligning Text |
|
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'} |
no example known |
| Text Indentation |
|
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}
> blockquote |
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 |
* one ** two |
| Numbered Lists |
1. item 1 2. item 2 1. item 1.1 42. the value doesn't matter 1. any value works |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 2. 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 Instiki | remove Oddmuse |