TWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PageWork

General Features TWiki Oddmuse PageWork
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.13
0.4.8
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (8 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2010-07-20 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (7 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Alex Schroeder
Pitt Murmann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPLv3
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
free
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
family people, hackers
Medium-sized sites
System Requirements TWiki Oddmuse PageWork
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Anything supported by Perl
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Any
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage TWiki Oddmuse PageWork
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Patch
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
RCS
Yes
No
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki Oddmuse PageWork
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
Proprietary
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Plugin
No
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Yes
Development/Support TWiki Oddmuse PageWork
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
89 ⭐
N/A
Common Features TWiki Oddmuse PageWork
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TWiki Oddmuse PageWork
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Optional
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
2
German, English
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
No
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links TWiki Oddmuse PageWork
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki Oddmuse PageWork
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability TWiki Oddmuse PageWork
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics TWiki Oddmuse PageWork
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Output TWiki Oddmuse PageWork
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki Oddmuse PageWork
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras TWiki Oddmuse PageWork
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki Oddmuse PageWork
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|alternate text]]
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://www.wikimatrix.org/
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
Bold Format
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
Italics Format
_italic_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
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_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

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