Oddmuse vs. PhpWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Zim

General Features Oddmuse PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Version
2.3.13
phpwiki-1.3.14
5.1.21
0.56
Last Release Date
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2012-04-02 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
Any
Individuals, private, small groups
Private users, small teams
System Requirements Oddmuse PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
None
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
various opt. helpers
A common browser
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage Oddmuse PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
No
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
optional extensions available
File permissions
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
No
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support Oddmuse PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
N/A
8486 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
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
Yes
Yes
Special Features Oddmuse PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Patch
Yes
No
Links Oddmuse PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features Oddmuse PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Optional
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
none
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Perl
plugins, templates, PHP
JavaScript
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability Oddmuse PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics Oddmuse PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output Oddmuse PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Oddmuse PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
No
Extras Oddmuse PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Oddmuse PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
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 ]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
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://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italic//
//italic//
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
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>


{{{monospaced}}}
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strikethrough--
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
^{sup}
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>below</sub>
~~subscript~~
_{sub}
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
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
no example known
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
not implemented
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

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

or 
paragraph
and another level 
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Term:<def>
def
; term
: description
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
----
----
----
not implemented
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