Oddmuse vs. UseMod vs. Foswiki

General Features Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
Version
2.3.13
1.2.2
2.1.11
Last Release Date
2018-09-04 (8 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2026-03-15 (6 months ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2026-03-15 (6 months ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Clifford Adams
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Other
No
No
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
No
Patch
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Patch
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
89 ⭐
N/A
118 ⭐
Common Features Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
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
No
Yes
Special Features Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Namespaces
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Quoting
Optional
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
Perl
None
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Usability Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
Yes
Statistics Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Patch
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Output Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
File Attachments
Optional
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
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]]
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
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
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
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
N/A
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
http://url.com/pic.gif
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
no example known
N/A
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
: indented
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
;Term:Definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
----
----
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