UseMod vs. Oddmuse vs. Zwiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki PhpWiki
Version
1.2.2
2.3.13
0.61
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Alex Schroeder
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPLv2
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Any
System Requirements UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki PhpWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Anything supported by Perl
any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Zope
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
various opt. helpers
Datastorage UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Unknown
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
Yes
RCS
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Other
No
No
ZODB (zope object database)
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Patch
No
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Patch
No
Development/Support UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Optional
No
Interface Languages
0
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Links UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Optional
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Patch
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Scripting
None
Perl
DTML
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
No
Page Templates
No
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Patch
Optional
Toolbar
No
Plugin
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Optional
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
No
No
Plugin
Output UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples UseMod Oddmuse Zwiki PhpWiki
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
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
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
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
N/A
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>below</sub>
Images
http://url.com/pic.gif
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
N/A
no example known
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
: indented
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

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