Oddmuse vs. PhpWiki vs. UseMod

General Features Oddmuse PhpWiki UseMod
Version
2.3.13
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.2.2
Last Release Date
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Clifford Adams
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
Any
System Requirements Oddmuse PhpWiki UseMod
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
various opt. helpers
Datastorage Oddmuse PhpWiki UseMod
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Other
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse PhpWiki UseMod
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
Unknown
nofollow
No
Yes
Patch
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support Oddmuse PhpWiki UseMod
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse PhpWiki UseMod
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
No
Special Features Oddmuse PhpWiki UseMod
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Unknown
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
0
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Plugin
No
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Links Oddmuse PhpWiki UseMod
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Oddmuse PhpWiki UseMod
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Optional
Yes
No
Internal Comments
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Perl
plugins, templates, PHP
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Usability Oddmuse PhpWiki UseMod
Section Editing
No
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Patch
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
No
Statistics Oddmuse PhpWiki UseMod
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output Oddmuse PhpWiki UseMod
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Oddmuse PhpWiki UseMod
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
No
Unknown
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
Extras Oddmuse PhpWiki UseMod
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
No
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Oddmuse PhpWiki UseMod
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 ]
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 ]
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 ======
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>
<u>underline</u>
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>


<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>striked through</strike>
N/A
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>below</sub>
<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
http://url.com/pic.gif
Aligning Text
no example known
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

N/A
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

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

or 
paragraph
and another level 
: indented
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* list
or
- list
* 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
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Term:<def>
def
;Term:Definition
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
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