TWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. UseMod

General Features TWiki Oddmuse UseMod
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.13
1.2.2
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (8 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Alex Schroeder
Clifford Adams
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
family people, hackers
System Requirements TWiki Oddmuse UseMod
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
Datastorage TWiki Oddmuse UseMod
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
Yes
No
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki Oddmuse UseMod
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Unknown
nofollow
Plugin
No
Patch
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support TWiki Oddmuse UseMod
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
89 ⭐
N/A
Common Features TWiki Oddmuse UseMod
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
No
Special Features TWiki Oddmuse UseMod
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Unknown
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
0
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links TWiki Oddmuse UseMod
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki Oddmuse UseMod
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Optional
No
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Perl
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Usability TWiki Oddmuse UseMod
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics TWiki Oddmuse UseMod
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Patch
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Output TWiki Oddmuse UseMod
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki Oddmuse UseMod
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras TWiki Oddmuse UseMod
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki Oddmuse UseMod
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
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
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Bold Format
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italic_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
N/A
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</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)
http://url.com/pic.gif
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
N/A
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

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

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
;Term:Definition
Horizontal Rule
---
Depending on plugins:
----
----
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