UseMod vs. PhpWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
Version
1.2.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
family people, hackers
System Requirements UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
Writable data directory
Datastorage UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Other
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
No
nofollow
Patch
Yes
No
Blacklist
Patch
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Optional
Interface Languages
0
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Unknown
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Links UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
None
plugins, templates, PHP
Perl
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Usability UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Statistics UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Extras UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Unknown
Yes
No
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples UseMod PhpWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
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://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
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 ======
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

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


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

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
N/A
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

no example known
Text Indentation
: indented
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

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

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