TWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Hatta vs. UseMod vs. Zim

General Features TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod Zim
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.13
1.6.6
1.2.2
0.56
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (8 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Alex Schroeder
Radomir Dopieralski
Clifford Adams
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL v2
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Python
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
family people, hackers
Private users, small teams
System Requirements TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod Zim
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
None
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
Mercurial
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
No
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
No
No
No
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
n/a
File permissions
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
No
nofollow
Plugin
No
No
Patch
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
No
Patch
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Development/Support TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
89 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Special Features TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
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
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
0
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
No
No
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Links TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod Zim
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Syntax Features TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod Zim
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
None
Some
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
none
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Perl
JavaScript
None
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Usability TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod Zim
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Statistics TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
No
No
Output TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod Zim
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod Zim
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
No
Extras TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod Zim
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
No
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod Zim
Internal Link
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
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
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
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italic//
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
n/a
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{{verbatim}}}
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
n/a
N/A
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
n/a
<sup>superscript</sup>
^{sup}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
n/a
<sub>subscript</sub>
_{sub}
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
http://url.com/pic.gif
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
n/a
N/A
not implemented
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
n/a
: indented
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* list
** sublist
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
n/a
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
n/a
;Term:Definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
---
Depending on plugins:
----
----
----
not implemented
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