Oddmuse vs. Foswiki vs. Hatta vs. PageWork

General Features Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta PageWork
Version
2.3.13
2.1.11
1.6.6
0.4.8
Last Release Date
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
2010-07-20 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Foswiki Community
Radomir Dopieralski
Pitt Murmann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL v2
GPLv3
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
free
$0
0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Medium-sized sites
System Requirements Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta PageWork
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Any
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Mercurial
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta PageWork
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Optional
Patch
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
Yes
Yes
No
Other
No
caching of content into database using plugins
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta PageWork
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
n/a
Proprietary
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Development/Support Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta PageWork
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
89 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta PageWork
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta PageWork
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
2
German, English
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Links Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta PageWork
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Features Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta PageWork
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
None
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Perl
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta PageWork
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Statistics Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta PageWork
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
No
Output Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta PageWork
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta PageWork
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta PageWork
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta PageWork
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
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
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
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_
//italic//
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
n/a
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{verbatim}}}
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
n/a
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
Aligning Text
no example known
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
n/a
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
n/a
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
** sublist
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
n/a
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
n/a
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
----
---
----
---
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