JSPWiki vs. UseMod vs. Oddmuse vs. Zwiki

General Features JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki
Version
2.11.0
1.2.2
2.3.13
0.61
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Clifford Adams
Alex Schroeder
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
Java
Perl
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
family people, hackers
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Anything supported by Perl
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Zope
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Writable data directory
Datastorage JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
Optional
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
Optional
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
Optional
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
Unknown
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
No
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
None (use your web server instead)
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Patch
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Patch
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Patch
Development/Support JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
115 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
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
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
0
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Flat
No
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Namespaces
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Links JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
No
Plugin
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Optional
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
None
Perl
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Usability JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
No
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Patch
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
No
No
Output JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
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
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= 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
''italics''
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<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
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
N/A
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
http://url.com/pic.gif
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
N/A
no example known
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# 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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