Wala Wiki vs. Oddmuse vs. LionWiki

General Features Wala Wiki Oddmuse LionWiki
Version
1.1.7
2.3.13
3.2.4
Last Release Date
2026-03-29 (1 month ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2010-09-20 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2010-10-01 (15 years ago)
Author
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
Alex Schroeder
Adam Živnéř
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain
GPL
GPL v2
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
free
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
family people, hackers
advanced users, minimalists
System Requirements Wala Wiki Oddmuse LionWiki
Operating System
Linux, *BSD
Anything supported by Perl
All PHP supported
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any that supports basic CGI.
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
Other Requirements
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
Writable data directory
Datastorage Wala Wiki Oddmuse LionWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
diffs
No
Security/Anti-Spam Wala Wiki Oddmuse LionWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
Authentication Backends
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support Wala Wiki Oddmuse LionWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
89 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wala Wiki Oddmuse LionWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wala Wiki Oddmuse LionWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
No
Interface Languages
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Plugin
No
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Optional
Plugin
No
Namespaces
No
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Links Wala Wiki Oddmuse LionWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Optional
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
InterWiki
No
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wala Wiki Oddmuse LionWiki
HTML Tags
None
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
No
No
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Perl
JavaScript (plugin)
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Usability Wala Wiki Oddmuse LionWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics Wala Wiki Oddmuse LionWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Output Wala Wiki Oddmuse LionWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
No
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files Wala Wiki Oddmuse LionWiki
File Attachments
No
Optional
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
No
Yes
Embedded Video
No
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Extras Wala Wiki Oddmuse LionWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wala Wiki Oddmuse LionWiki
Internal Link
LinkDump, [link dump]
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
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
External Link
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
Headlines
= headline =
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
Bold Format
'''bolded'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold''
Italics Format
''italicized''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
'__underline__'
Monospace Format
monospaced.
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
'--strikethrough--'
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[path_to_img.jpg]
Aligning Text
no example known
Text Indentation
:Block-quoted text.
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
* one
** two
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
# Three
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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