Zwiki vs. UseMod vs. Oddmuse

General Features Zwiki UseMod Oddmuse
Version
0.61
1.2.2
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Clifford Adams
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv2
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Python
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Files
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 Zwiki UseMod Oddmuse
Operating System
any
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Zope
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
Datastorage Zwiki UseMod Oddmuse
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
No
Oracle
Plugin
No
No
SQLite
Unknown
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
No
Other
ZODB (zope object database)
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam Zwiki UseMod Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Patch
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Unknown
No
nofollow
Unknown
Patch
No
Blacklist
Yes
Patch
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
No
Development/Support Zwiki UseMod Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
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 Zwiki UseMod Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
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
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Zwiki UseMod Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Unknown
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
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Comments
Flat
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Unknown
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Unknown
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Links Zwiki UseMod Oddmuse
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Zwiki UseMod Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
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
Patch
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
No
Plugin
Scripting
DTML
None
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Usability Zwiki UseMod Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
No
No
Page Templates
No
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Patch
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Plugin
Statistics Zwiki UseMod Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Patch
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Patch
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Optional
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
No
Output Zwiki UseMod Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Patch
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files Zwiki UseMod Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Optional
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
No
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras Zwiki UseMod 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 Zwiki UseMod 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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