PmWiki vs. UseMod vs. PhpWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
Version
2.6.0
1.2.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2026-05-16 (28 days ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-05-16 (28 days ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Clifford Adams
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Any
family people, hackers
System Requirements PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
none
various opt. helpers
Writable data directory
Datastorage PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
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.
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Unknown
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Patch
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Patch
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Unknown
No
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
0
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Links PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Unknown
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
None
plugins, templates, PHP
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Usability PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Statistics PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Output PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
Filenames only
Extras PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
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://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
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 =====
====== Level 6 ======
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
N/A
<strike>striked through</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
http://url.com/pic.gif
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
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
N/A
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

no example known
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
: indented
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
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
* list
or
- list
* 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
# list
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
: term : definition
;Term:Definition
Term:<def>
def
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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