Oddmuse vs. UseMod vs. Foswiki vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki ErfurtWiki
Version
2.3.13
1.2.2
2.1.11
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2018-09-04 (8 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2026-03-15 (6 months ago)
2005-06-16 (21 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2026-03-15 (6 months ago)
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Clifford Adams
Foswiki Community
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
small + medium sites, development teams
System Requirements Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki ErfurtWiki
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Datastorage Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki ErfurtWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
No
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Plugin
RCS
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
No
No
caching of content into database using plugins
no
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
No
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
Optional
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Development/Support Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
89 ⭐
N/A
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki ErfurtWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Unknown
No
Patch
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Links Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
No
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Perl
None
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
optional
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Toolbar
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Statistics Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Patch
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Analysis
No
No
Yes
No
Output Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Optional
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
No
Extras Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki ErfurtWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blogs
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki ErfurtWiki
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]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
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]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
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
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
*bold*
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
_italic_
''ialic text''
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
optional or via css
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>
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
N/A
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
optional or via css
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
optional or via css
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"}%
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
no example known
N/A
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
optional or via css
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
: indented
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
;Term:Definition
$ Term: Definition
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
----
----
---
----
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