alphawiki vs. PmWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Version
v.20160608
2.3.33
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2016-08-05 (7 years ago)
2024-04-20 (29 days ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-09-10 (7 years ago)
2024-04-21 (28 days ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
marty alain
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU-GPL
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
PHP+Javascript
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users, small teams
All
family people, hackers
System Requirements alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
probably every OS
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
Yes
No
No
Webserver
Apache with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
Datastorage alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
Security/Anti-Spam alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
No
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Links alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
No
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
Plugin
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Optional
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Optional
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Statistics alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples alphawiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
{b I am bold}
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
{i I am italic}
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
{u I am underline}
{+underlined+}
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
@@monospace@@
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
{del I am line-through}
{-strikethrough-}
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
E = mc{sup 2}
'^superscript^'
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
'_subscript_'
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
{center I am centered}
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
no example known
Text Indentation
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
: term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
{hr}
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Depending on plugins:
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