Zim vs. UseMod vs. Oddmuse

General Features Zim UseMod Oddmuse
Version
0.56
1.2.2
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Jaap Karssenberg
Clifford Adams
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Python
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private users, small teams
family people, hackers
System Requirements Zim UseMod Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OSX
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
None
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Writable data directory
Datastorage Zim UseMod Oddmuse
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
Plugin
No
No
Other
Text Files with index in SQLite
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam Zim UseMod Oddmuse
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
Authentication Backends
File permissions
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
No
nofollow
No
Patch
No
Blacklist
No
Patch
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support Zim UseMod Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features Zim UseMod Oddmuse
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Zim UseMod Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Interface Languages
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Unknown
Plugin
Comments
No
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Plugin
Links Zim UseMod Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Zim UseMod Oddmuse
HTML Tags
None
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
none
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Plugin
Footnotes
No
No
Plugin
Quoting
No
No
Optional
Internal Comments
No
No
No
Custom styles
No
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
None
None
Perl
Content Includes
No
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Unknown
Yes
Usability Zim UseMod Oddmuse
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Plugin
Statistics Zim UseMod Oddmuse
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Patch
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
No
Output Zim UseMod Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
No
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files Zim UseMod Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Optional
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
No
No
Embedded Video
No
No
No
Image Editing
No
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
No
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Extras Zim UseMod Oddmuse
Calendar
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
No
Unknown
No
Blogs
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Zim UseMod Oddmuse
Internal Link
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
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
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
=== Heading ===
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
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
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
``monospace``
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
~~strike~~
N/A
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
^{sup}
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
_{sub}
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
{{./image.png}}
http://url.com/pic.gif
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
not implemented
N/A
no example known
Text Indentation
indent with tabs
: indented
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
not implemented
;Term:Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
not implemented
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Depending on plugins:
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