MediaWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Wiki on a Stick

General Features MediaWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
Version
1.45.3
2.3.13
0.12.0
Last Release Date
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2010-06-21 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-06-03 (1 day ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2010-08-24 (15 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Alex Schroeder
legolas558
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
family people, hackers
Advanced End Users
System Requirements MediaWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Anything supported by Perl
OS Independent (Browser Application)
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
JavaScript-capable browser
Datastorage MediaWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
No
No
Self-modifying XHTML file, can export into XHTML and WSIF
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
Authentication Backends
Yes
None (use your web server instead)
Supports per-page AES encryption
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
None
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
English, Italian
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links MediaWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
CamelCase
No
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features MediaWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional
Perl
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability MediaWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics MediaWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
No
Unknown
Output MediaWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras MediaWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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
[[WoaS test page]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[[http://stickwiki.sf.net/|WoaS Official Website]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= Header 1
== Header 2
=== Header 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold text*
Italics Format
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
/italics text/
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
_underlined text_
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{{this text will not render wiki syntax}}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[[Image::woas.png]]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
no example known
Text Indentation
: indented line
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** two
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
----
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