PmWiki vs. Zwiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features PmWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
Version
2.6.0
0.61
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2026-05-16 (28 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-05-16 (28 days ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPLv2
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
family people, hackers
System Requirements PmWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
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.
Zope
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
Datastorage PmWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Plugin
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
Plugin
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
RCS
Plugin
Unknown
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
ZODB (zope object database)
No
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki Zwiki 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.
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Optional
Patch
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Patch
No
Development/Support PmWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PmWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
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 Zwiki Oddmuse
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
0
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
No
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Links PmWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Patch
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
DTML
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability PmWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Toolbar
Optional
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics PmWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Optional
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Output PmWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files PmWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras PmWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
No
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PmWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
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://...]]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
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
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
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)
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
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
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
* one
** two
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
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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