PukiWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. UseMod vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features PukiWiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
Version
1.5.1
2.3.13
1.2.2
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2018-09-04 (8 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2005-06-16 (21 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Alex Schroeder
Clifford Adams
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
GPL
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
family people, hackers
small + medium sites, development teams
System Requirements PukiWiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
Operating System
OS independent
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Writable data directory
none
Datastorage PukiWiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
No
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Plugin
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
No
No
no
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
None (use your web server instead)
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
Patch
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Patch
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Patch
Development/Support PukiWiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
89 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features PukiWiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Unknown
Patch
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
No
Plugin
Categories
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Links PukiWiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
Patch
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PukiWiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Quoting
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Perl
None
optional
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Usability PukiWiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
Patch
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Toolbar
Patch
Plugin
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
No
No
Statistics PukiWiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Analysis
No
No
No
No
Output PukiWiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Optional
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Optional
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PukiWiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
No
Extras PukiWiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Blogs
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PukiWiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>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
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
''bold''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
'''italic'''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
''ialic text''
Underline Format
%%%underlined%%%
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
optional or via css
Monospace Format
N/A
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
N/A
optional or via css
Superscript Format
N/A
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
N/A
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
optional or via css
Images
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
http://url.com/pic.gif
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
no example known
N/A
optional or via css
Text Indentation
N/A
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
: indented
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Definition Lists
:term|definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
;Term:Definition
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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