Oddmuse vs. TWiki vs. UseMod vs. PmWiki vs. Hatta

General Features Oddmuse TWiki UseMod PmWiki Hatta
Version
2.3.13
TWiki-6.1.0
1.2.2
2.6.0
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2026-05-16 (25 days ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2026-05-16 (25 days ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Clifford Adams
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
GPL v2
Programming Language
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
free
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
System Requirements Oddmuse TWiki UseMod PmWiki Hatta
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Mercurial
Datastorage Oddmuse TWiki UseMod PmWiki Hatta
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse TWiki UseMod PmWiki Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
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
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Development/Support Oddmuse TWiki UseMod PmWiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse TWiki UseMod PmWiki Hatta
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Special Features Oddmuse TWiki UseMod PmWiki Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
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
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
No
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Links Oddmuse TWiki UseMod PmWiki Hatta
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features Oddmuse TWiki UseMod PmWiki Hatta
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Some
Plugin
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Quoting
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Perl
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
None
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Usability Oddmuse TWiki UseMod PmWiki Hatta
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics Oddmuse TWiki UseMod PmWiki Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Patch
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Output Oddmuse TWiki UseMod PmWiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
No
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
XML export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Oddmuse TWiki UseMod PmWiki Hatta
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras Oddmuse TWiki UseMod PmWiki Hatta
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Presentations
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Oddmuse TWiki UseMod PmWiki Hatta
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 autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
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://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_
''italic''
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
n/a
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
@@monospace@@
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
N/A
{-strikethrough-}
n/a
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
n/a
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
n/a
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://url.com/pic.gif
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
Aligning Text
no example known
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
N/A
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
n/a
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
** sublist
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
n/a
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
;Term:Definition
: term : definition
n/a
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
----
---
----
----
----
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