UseMod vs. Zwiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse
Version
1.2.2
0.61
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPLv2
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Python
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
family people, hackers
System Requirements UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
any
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Zope
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
Datastorage UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Plugin
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
Unknown
No
Other
No
ZODB (zope object database)
No
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Yes
Patch
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
No
nofollow
Patch
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Patch
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Patch
No
Development/Support UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
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 Zwiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
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
Yes
Plugin
Comments
No
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
No
Plugin
Namespaces
Unknown
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Links UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
No
Unknown
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
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
Patch
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Optional
Plugin
Scripting
None
DTML
Perl
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Usability UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
No
No
Page Templates
No
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Patch
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Statistics UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Optional
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
No
Output UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
No
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
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
No
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
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
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://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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