Oddmuse vs. XWiki vs. Wiki on a Stick

General Features Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
Version
2.3.13
18.5.0
0.12.0
Last Release Date
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2026-06-29 (13 days ago)
2010-06-21 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-06-29 (13 days ago)
2010-08-24 (15 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
XWiki Development Team
legolas558
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPLv2
Programming Language
Perl
Java
JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Advanced End Users
Hosting Features Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
OS Independent (Browser Application)
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
JavaScript-capable browser
Datastorage Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
No
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Self-modifying XHTML file, can export into XHTML and WSIF
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Supports per-page AES encryption
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
nofollow
No
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
89 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
None
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
No
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
English, Italian
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
No
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
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
Perl
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Usability Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
No
Statistics Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Unknown
Output Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
No
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
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
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
[[WoaS test page]]
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
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[http://stickwiki.sf.net/|WoaS Official Website]]
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
= Header 1
== Header 2
=== Header 3
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold text*
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//Italics//
/italics text/
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
_underlined text_
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
##monospace##
{{{this text will not render wiki syntax}}}
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--Strike--
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
,,subscript,,
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
[[Image::woas.png]]
Aligning Text
no example known
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* List
** list
*** list
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
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