Oddmuse vs. PhpWiki vs. TWiki vs. Zim

General Features Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki Zim
Version
2.3.13
phpwiki-1.3.14
TWiki-6.1.0
0.56
Last Release Date
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2012-04-02 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
Any
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Private users, small teams
System Requirements Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki Zim
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
None
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
various opt. helpers
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Plugin
Other
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
File permissions
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki 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
N/A
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 TWiki Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
No
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Patch
Yes
No
Links Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki Zim
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki Zim
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Yes
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
Yes
No
Scripting
Perl
plugins, templates, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki Zim
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Output Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki Zim
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
No
Extras Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki Zim
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki 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 autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
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
---++++++ Level 6
=== 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>
<u>underline</u>
__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 text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>striked through</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^{sup}
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
_{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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
no example known
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
not implemented
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

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

or 
paragraph
and another level 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Term:<def>
def
$ Term: Definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
----
----
---
not implemented
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