PmWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Foswiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki PukiWiki
Version
2.7.3
2.3.13
2.1.11
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2026-07-26 (1 day ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-07-26 (1 day ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Alex Schroeder
Foswiki Community
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki PukiWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki PukiWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
caching of content into database using plugins
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
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.
None (use your web server instead)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
89 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Optional
No
No
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Links PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Plugin
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Perl
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Statistics PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Output PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki PukiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Chat
No
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki PukiWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
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://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
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
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold*
''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_
'''italic'''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
N/A
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
N/A
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
N/A
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
no example known
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
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
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
---
--------------------
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