PmWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Version
2.7.4
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2026-07-31 (14 days ago)
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-07-31 (14 days ago)
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Andreas Gohr
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
personal, small to medium companies
family people, hackers
System Requirements PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
Datastorage PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
Development/Support PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
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
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional, PHP
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media and Files PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
No
Syntax Examples PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
''monospace''
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<del>strikethrough</del>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Plugin
no example known
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Plugin
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
Depending on plugins:
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