PmWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. XWiki

General Features PmWiki Oddmuse XWiki
Version
2.6.0
2.3.13
18.4.0
Last Release Date
2026-05-16 (28 days ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2026-05-27 (17 days ago)
Last Update here
2026-05-16 (28 days ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-05-27 (17 days ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Alex Schroeder
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features PmWiki Oddmuse XWiki
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
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements PmWiki Oddmuse XWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
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
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage PmWiki Oddmuse XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Plugin
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki Oddmuse XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
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)
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Yes
Development/Support PmWiki Oddmuse XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PmWiki Oddmuse XWiki
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
Yes
Special Features PmWiki Oddmuse XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Optional
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
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
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links PmWiki Oddmuse XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki Oddmuse XWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Perl
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability PmWiki Oddmuse XWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Optional
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics PmWiki Oddmuse XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
Output PmWiki Oddmuse XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
No
Yes
Media and Files PmWiki Oddmuse XWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Extras PmWiki Oddmuse XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples PmWiki Oddmuse XWiki
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
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)
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
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--Strike--
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
,,subscript,,
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: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
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
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more 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
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
* List
** list
*** list
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
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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