Oddmuse vs. PmWiki vs. PBwiki

General Features Oddmuse PmWiki PBwiki
Version
2.3.13
2.6.0
N/A
Last Release Date
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2026-05-16 (25 days ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-05-16 (25 days ago)
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
PBworks
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
License
GPL
GPL2+
N/A
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
N/A
Data Storage
Files
Files
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
Determined by Solution Needs
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
All
Business Enterprises
Hosting Features Oddmuse PmWiki PBwiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
No limit
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
No limit
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
None
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
None
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
Yes
System Requirements Oddmuse PmWiki PBwiki
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
N/A
Root Access
No
No
N/A
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
N/A
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
none
N/A
Datastorage Oddmuse PmWiki PBwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
N/A
MySQL
No
Plugin
N/A
PostgreSQL
No
No
N/A
Oracle
No
No
N/A
SQLite
No
Plugin
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
RCS
No
Plugin
N/A
Other
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse PmWiki PBwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
N/A
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support Oddmuse PmWiki PBwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse PmWiki PBwiki
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 PmWiki PBwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, 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
1
English
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links Oddmuse PmWiki PBwiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Oddmuse PmWiki PBwiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Perl
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Oddmuse PmWiki PBwiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
No
Statistics Oddmuse PmWiki PBwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Optional
Output Oddmuse PmWiki PBwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Oddmuse PmWiki PBwiki
File Attachments
Optional
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Oddmuse PmWiki PBwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Oddmuse PmWiki PBwiki
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
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
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://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://www.externallink.com]
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
@@monospace@@
<code>monospace</code>
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
{-strikethrough-}
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
Aligning Text
no example known
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
<left>, <center>, <right>
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Indented block
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Number #1
# Number #2
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
: term : definition
<dl>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
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