UseMod vs. Oddmuse vs. DokuWiki vs. LionWiki

General Features UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki LionWiki
Version
1.2.2
2.3.13
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
3.2.4
Last Release Date
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
2010-09-20 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-03-25 (1 month ago)
2010-10-01 (15 years ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Alex Schroeder
Andreas Gohr
Adam Živnéř
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL 2
GPL v2
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
personal, small to medium companies
advanced users, minimalists
System Requirements UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki LionWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
All PHP supported
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
Datastorage UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki LionWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
No
No
None
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki LionWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Patch
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
No
Development/Support UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki LionWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
89 ⭐
4606 ⭐
N/A
Common Features UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki LionWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki LionWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Interface Languages
0
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki LionWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki LionWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
None
Perl
Optional, PHP
JavaScript (plugin)
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki LionWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Statistics UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki LionWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
No
Output UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki LionWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki LionWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki LionWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
No
No
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki LionWiki
Internal 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
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
External Link
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|With a Title]]
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
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 ==
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underlined__
'__underline__'
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
N/A
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<del>strikethrough</del>
'--strikethrough--'
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
http://url.com/pic.gif
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[path_to_img.jpg]
Aligning Text
N/A
no example known
Plugin
Text Indentation
: indented
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
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