ProWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features ProWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
Version
2.0.045
5.1.21
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
HTML, JavaScript
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Individuals, private, small groups
family people, hackers
System Requirements ProWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Unix / Linux
Any
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Not required (optional backends available)
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
none
A common browser
Writable data directory
Datastorage ProWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Optional
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support ProWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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89 ⭐
Common Features ProWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
4
German, English, French, Japanese
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Yes
Plugin
Links ProWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features ProWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability ProWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Statistics ProWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Output ProWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files ProWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Extras ProWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples ProWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
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://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
'''bold'''
''bold''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
~~subscript~~
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
no example known
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
# numbered list
## numbered list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
; term: definition
; term
: description
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
Depending on plugins:
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