UseMod vs. PmWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features UseMod PmWiki Oddmuse
Version
1.2.2
2.6.0
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2026-05-16 (24 days ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2026-05-16 (24 days ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
family people, hackers
System Requirements UseMod PmWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, 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. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
Datastorage UseMod PmWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod PmWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
No
nofollow
Patch
Yes
No
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support UseMod PmWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features UseMod PmWiki 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 PmWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
0
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, 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
Optional
Plugin
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Links UseMod PmWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features UseMod PmWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
Plugin
Optional
Internal Comments
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
None
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Perl
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Usability UseMod PmWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Optional
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Statistics UseMod PmWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output UseMod PmWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files UseMod PmWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Optional
Optional
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras UseMod PmWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples UseMod PmWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
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 ======
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
@@monospace@@
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
N/A
{-strikethrough-}
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
http://url.com/pic.gif
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
N/A
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
no example known
Text Indentation
: indented
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

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