Instiki vs. UseMod vs. Oddmuse

General Features Instiki UseMod Oddmuse
Version
0.30.0
1.2.2
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Clifford Adams
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Ruby's
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Ruby on Rails
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
general, education
family people, hackers
System Requirements Instiki UseMod Oddmuse
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Writable data directory
Datastorage Instiki UseMod Oddmuse
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Plugin
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam Instiki UseMod Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Unknown
No
nofollow
Unknown
Patch
No
Blacklist
Yes
Patch
Optional
CAPTCHA
Unknown
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support Instiki UseMod Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
505 ⭐
N/A
89 ⭐
Common Features Instiki UseMod Oddmuse
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Special Features Instiki UseMod Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
0
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Unknown
Plugin
Comments
No
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Unknown
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Plugin
Links Instiki UseMod Oddmuse
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
No
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Instiki UseMod Oddmuse
HTML Tags
All
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
None
None
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Unknown
Yes
Usability Instiki UseMod Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
No
No
Page Templates
No
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Plugin
Statistics Instiki UseMod Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
No
Output Instiki UseMod Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
No
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files Instiki UseMod Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Optional
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
No
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
No
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Extras Instiki UseMod Oddmuse
Calendar
No
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
No
Unknown
No
Blogs
No
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Instiki UseMod Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[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
[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
#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'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italic_, *italic*
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
`monospace`
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
N/A
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
http://url.com/pic.gif
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
N/A
no example known
Text Indentation
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
: indented
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
term
: definition
;Term:Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
***
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Depending on plugins:
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