PukiWiki vs. TWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features PukiWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Version
1.5.1
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (9 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
family people, hackers
System Requirements PukiWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
OS independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
Datastorage PukiWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Patch
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support PukiWiki TWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PukiWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Optional
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Optional
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Yes
Plugin
Links PukiWiki TWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PukiWiki TWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Perl
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability PukiWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Patch
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Statistics PukiWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Output PukiWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files PukiWiki TWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras PukiWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Optional
Plugin
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Optional
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PukiWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
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
** Level 2
*** Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
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
%%%underlined%%%
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
N/A
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
:term|definition
$ Term: Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
--------------------
---
Depending on plugins:
----
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