Sputnik vs. ConnectedText vs. PBwiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features Sputnik ConnectedText PBwiki Oddmuse
Version
8.08.13
5.0.0.1
N/A
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
N/A
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
2019-02-19 (7 years ago)
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Yuri Takhteyev
Eduardo Mauro
PBworks
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
N/A
Yes
License
MIT/X
Commercial
N/A
GPL
Programming Language
Lua
Programming Language Not relevant (completely self-contained)
N/A
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
N/A
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
39,95
Determined by Solution Needs
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Small teams or private users
Anyone doing research needing a tool with wiki capabilities for data organization and retrieval. Standalone wiki system
Business Enterprises
family people, hackers
Hosting Features Sputnik ConnectedText PBwiki Oddmuse
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
No limit
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
No limit
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
System Requirements Sputnik ConnectedText PBwiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
Windows
N/A
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Apache, CGI, Xavante
No need
N/A
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
gcc or Lua
none
N/A
Writable data directory
Datastorage Sputnik ConnectedText PBwiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
N/A
No
Oracle
No
No
N/A
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
No
RCS
No
No
N/A
No
Other
Git
Firebird
N/A
No
Security/Anti-Spam Sputnik ConnectedText PBwiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Yes
No need
N/A
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
No
nofollow
No
No
No
No
Blacklist
No
No
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support Sputnik ConnectedText PBwiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features Sputnik ConnectedText PBwiki 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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Sputnik ConnectedText PBwiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
5
Danish, German, English, Italian, Portuguese
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Comments
No
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
None
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
N/A
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links Sputnik ConnectedText PBwiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Sputnik ConnectedText PBwiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Some
Some
All
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Lua, JavaScript
Yes
Javascript
Perl
Content Includes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Yes
Yes
Usability Sputnik ConnectedText PBwiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Plugin
Statistics Sputnik ConnectedText PBwiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Optional
No
Output Sputnik ConnectedText PBwiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files Sputnik ConnectedText PBwiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Sputnik ConnectedText PBwiki Oddmuse
Calendar
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Sputnik ConnectedText PBwiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[Sputnik]]
[[wiki page]]
[[wiki page|Title]]
CamelCaseLink or [Free 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
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org)
[[$URL:www.connectedtext.com]]
[[$URL:www.connectedtext.com|Title]]
[http://www.externallink.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
# Sputnik
= Head1 =
== Head 2 ==
=== Head 3 ====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__
**bold**
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_
//italic//
''italics''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__Underline__
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{Monospace}}}
<code>monospace</code>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
--Strikethrough--
-strikethrough-
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
^^Superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
vvSubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
[[$IMG:Image.jpeg]]
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
~~Centered text~~
<left>, <center>, <right>
no example known
Text Indentation
> Sputnik
: First level of indenting
:: Second level
Indented block
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Sputnik
* First item
* Seconditem
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
1. Sputnik
1. First item
1. Second item
# Number #1
# Number #2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

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