Oddmuse vs. DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
2.3.13
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-03-25 (1 month ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
BSD
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
personal, small to medium companies
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
A common browser
Datastorage Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
No
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Unknown
Development/Support Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
89 ⭐
4606 ⭐
8587 ⭐
Common Features Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
Perl
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Statistics Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal 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
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
''monospace''
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
no example known
Plugin
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Plugin
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
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