Oddmuse vs. TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. LionWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki LionWiki PmWiki
Version
2.3.13
5.1.21
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
3.2.4
2.5.9
Last Release Date
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
2010-09-20 (15 years ago)
2026-04-05 (24 days ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-25 (1 month ago)
2010-10-01 (15 years ago)
2026-04-05 (24 days ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
Adam Živnéř
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL 2
GPL v2
GPL2+
Programming Language
Perl
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
advanced users, minimalists
All
System Requirements Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki LionWiki PmWiki
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
All PHP supported
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
A common browser
none
Datastorage Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki LionWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki LionWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
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
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
No
Optional
nofollow
No
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
Development/Support Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki LionWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
89 ⭐
8587 ⭐
4606 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki LionWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki LionWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, 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
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Links Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki LionWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki LionWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
Perl
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
JavaScript (plugin)
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki LionWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki LionWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki LionWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
XML export
No
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki LionWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Optional
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki LionWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki LionWiki 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 (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
[[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://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
''bold''
**bold**
'''bold''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italic//
//italics//
''italics''
''italic''
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
__underlined__
'__underline__'
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{{monospaced}}}
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
'--strikethrough--'
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[path_to_img.jpg]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
no example known
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Plugin
%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
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
; term
: description
Plugin
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
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