Zwiki vs. UseMod vs. Wikia vs. Oddmuse

General Features Zwiki UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
Version
0.61
1.2.2
N/A
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
N/A
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2013-02-18 (13 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Clifford Adams
Wikia, Inc.
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
GPLv2
GPL
N/A
GPL
Programming Language
Python
Perl
N/A
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Files
N/A
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
$0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
All users
family people, hackers
Hosting Features Zwiki UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
unlimited
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
none
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Optional
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
System Requirements Zwiki UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
Operating System
any
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
N/A
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Zope
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
N/A
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
N/A
Writable data directory
Datastorage Zwiki UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
N/A
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
N/A
No
Oracle
Plugin
No
N/A
No
SQLite
Unknown
No
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
N/A
No
RCS
Unknown
No
N/A
No
Other
ZODB (zope object database)
No
N/A
No
Security/Anti-Spam Zwiki UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
N/A
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
nofollow
Unknown
Patch
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Patch
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
Optional
No
Development/Support Zwiki UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features Zwiki UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
No
Yes
Special Features Zwiki UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
0
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
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Flat
No
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Unknown
N/A
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Links Zwiki UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Zwiki UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Optional
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Patch
No
Optional
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
DTML
None
Yes
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Usability Zwiki UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Patch
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Statistics Zwiki UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Optional
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Yes
No
Output Zwiki UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Patch
No
Optional
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files Zwiki UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras Zwiki UseMod Wikia Oddmuse
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Zwiki UseMod Wikia 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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