Oddmuse vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Version
2.3.13
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.5.4
Last Release Date
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2025-12-06 (11 days ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2025-12-06 (11 days ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
Any
All
System Requirements Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
various opt. helpers
none
Datastorage Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Development/Support Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 PhpWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Optional
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Links Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
Perl
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
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 or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
no example known
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
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