| General Features | ikiwiki | LynxWiki | Oddmuse | Wikidot |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.67
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1.3.0.0
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2.3.13
|
|
| Last Release Date |
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
|
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
|
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
|
|
| Last Update here |
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
|
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
|
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
|
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
|
| Author |
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
|
J.W. Davidson
|
Alex Schroeder
|
Michal Frackowiak
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
Apache License 2.0
|
GPL
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AGPLv3
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| Programming Language |
Perl
|
C#
|
Perl
|
|
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Database, Files
|
Files
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
$0
|
free
|
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Anyone
|
small organization to enterprise
|
family people, hackers
|
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
|
| Hosting Features | ikiwiki | LynxWiki | Oddmuse | Wikidot |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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no limit
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| Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
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N/A
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max uploaded file size limit
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
by Terms Of Service
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| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| System Requirements | ikiwiki | LynxWiki | Oddmuse | Wikidot |
| Operating System |
Any
|
Windows
|
Anything supported by Perl
|
|
| Root Access |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any, or none
|
IIS7 or IIS8
|
Anything supporting CGI scripts
|
|
| Other Requirements |
IronPython
|
Writable data directory
|
||
| Datastorage | ikiwiki | LynxWiki | Oddmuse | Wikidot |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Other |
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
|
No
|
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| Security/Anti-Spam | ikiwiki | LynxWiki | Oddmuse | Wikidot |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
|
MS Membership and Roles
|
None (use your web server instead)
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| nofollow |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Development/Support | ikiwiki | LynxWiki | Oddmuse | Wikidot |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
89 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | ikiwiki | LynxWiki | Oddmuse | Wikidot |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
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 |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | ikiwiki | LynxWiki | Oddmuse | Wikidot |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| 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 |
2
English, Polish |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
None
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Links | ikiwiki | LynxWiki | Oddmuse | Wikidot |
| CamelCase |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | ikiwiki | LynxWiki | Oddmuse | Wikidot |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
None
|
Plugin
|
None
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Scripting |
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
|
IronPython
|
Perl
|
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | ikiwiki | LynxWiki | Oddmuse | Wikidot |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | ikiwiki | LynxWiki | Oddmuse | Wikidot |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Output | ikiwiki | LynxWiki | Oddmuse | Wikidot |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | ikiwiki | LynxWiki | Oddmuse | Wikidot |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
| Extras | ikiwiki | LynxWiki | Oddmuse | Wikidot |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | ikiwiki | LynxWiki | Oddmuse | Wikidot |
| Internal Link |
[[internal]] |
CamelCase "display text":DisplayText |
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]]] or [[[page-name|anchor]]] |
| External Link |
[link text](http://example.org) |
http://www.wikimatrix.org "Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org "this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com |
http://example.com/ [http://example.com/] → [1] optional, default on: [http://example.com/ text] → text Depending on plugins: [text](http://example.com/) → text |
http://www.wikimatrix.org or [http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix] |
| Headlines |
Two syntaxes: # heading 1 ## heading 2 ### heading 3 heading 1 ========= heading 2 --------- |
!!Header 2 !!!Header 3 !!!!!!Header 6 |
Depending on plugins: ## two ### three == two == === three == section ======= subsection ---------- |
+++ headline level 3 |
| Bold Format |
**bold** __bold__ |
*bold* '''bold''' |
Depending on plugins: *bold* **bold* '''bold''' |
**bold text** |
| Italics Format |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
_italics_ |
Depending on plugins: *italic* /italic/ //italic// ''italic'' |
//italic text// |
| Underline Format |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
+underlined+ |
Depending on plugins: _underline_ __underline__ |
__underlined text__ |
| Monospace Format |
`inline monospace` indented block of monospaced text tab-indented block |
[indent single space] @mono space on single line@ @@ start on multiline with end @@ |
Depending on plugins: `mono` ##mono## [code]mono[/code] <tt>mono</tt> <code>mono</code> |
{{monospaced text}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
-strikethrough- |
via bbCode plugin: [s]strike through[/s] |
--strikethrough text-- |
| Superscript Format |
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
superscript^234^ |
via bbCode plugin: [sup]superscript[/sup] |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
water: H~2~O |
via bbCode plugin: [sub]subscript[/sub] |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
  |
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg] http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg |
http://example.com/pic.jpg Depending on plugins: [[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants  |
[[image src="..."]] |
| Aligning Text |
|
N/A |
no example known |
= Centered line |
| Text Indentation |
|
N/A |
Depending on plugins: > text [quote] text [/quote] : one :: two |
> First level of indentation >> Second level of indentation. |
| Bulleted Lists |
* item 1 * item 2 * item 2.1 * item 2.2 |
* first bullet (8 spaces) * first sub item bullet * second item |
* one ** two |
* element 1 * element 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. item 1 2. item 2 1. item 1.1 42. the value doesn't matter 1. any value works |
1. first numbered item 1. second item |
Depending on plugins: 1. one 2. two # one ## two |
# element 1 # element 1 |
| Definition Lists |
via HTML: <dl> <dt>term</dt> <dd>definition</dd> </dl> |
N/A |
Depending on plugins: ; term: definition |
: item : description |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- *** ___ ------------------ Any number > 3 - - - - - - - - - - spaces don't matter |
---- |
Depending on plugins: ---- |
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