PmWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Hatta

General Features PmWiki Oddmuse Hatta
Version
2.6.0
2.3.13
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2026-05-16 (2 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-05-16 (2 months ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Alex Schroeder
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
GPL v2
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
family people, hackers
System Requirements PmWiki Oddmuse Hatta
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
Mercurial
Datastorage PmWiki Oddmuse Hatta
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki Oddmuse Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
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.
None (use your web server instead)
n/a
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support PmWiki Oddmuse Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
89 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PmWiki Oddmuse Hatta
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features PmWiki Oddmuse Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Optional
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
No
Links PmWiki Oddmuse Hatta
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features PmWiki Oddmuse Hatta
HTML Tags
Plugin
Plugin
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Quoting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Perl
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability PmWiki Oddmuse Hatta
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Optional
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics PmWiki Oddmuse Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Output PmWiki Oddmuse Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Optional
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Plugin
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
No
XML export
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki Oddmuse Hatta
File Attachments
Optional
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras PmWiki Oddmuse Hatta
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
No
Presentations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki Oddmuse Hatta
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
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
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
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
n/a
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
n/a
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
n/a
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
via bbCode plugin:
[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)
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
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
n/a
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
* list
** sublist
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
n/a
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
n/a
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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