UseMod vs. Wikia vs. Oddmuse

General Features UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
Version
1.2.2
N/A
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
N/A
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2013-02-18 (13 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Wikia, Inc.
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
GPL
N/A
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
N/A
Perl
Data Storage
Files
N/A
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
free
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
All users
family people, hackers
Hosting Features UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
Storage Quota
N/A
unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
unlimited
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
none
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Optional
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
N/A
System Requirements UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
N/A
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
N/A
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
N/A
Writable data directory
Datastorage UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
N/A
Yes
MySQL
No
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
No
Oracle
No
N/A
No
SQLite
No
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
RCS
No
N/A
No
Other
No
N/A
No
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
N/A
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
No
nofollow
Patch
Yes
No
Blacklist
Patch
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features UseMod Wikia 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
No
Yes
Special Features UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
0
0
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
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
N/A
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Links UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
No
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Optional
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Optional
No
BBCode Support
No
Optional
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
None
Yes
Perl
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Usability UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Plugin
Statistics UseMod Wikia 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
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Output UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Optional
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Unknown
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Unknown
Yes
No
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
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
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
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
N/A
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[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)
Aligning Text
N/A
no example known
Text Indentation
: indented
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

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

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