Corendal Wiki vs. Oddmuse vs. TWiki vs. Instiki

General Features Corendal Wiki Oddmuse TWiki Instiki
Version
3.0.2
2.3.13
TWiki-6.1.0
0.30.0
Last Release Date
2010-04-22 (14 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-23 (14 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
Author
Thierry Danard
Alex Schroeder
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
Ruby's
Programming Language
Java
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Ruby on Rails
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Corporate
family people, hackers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
general, education
System Requirements Corendal Wiki Oddmuse TWiki Instiki
Operating System
Unix / Windows
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat, Oracle Application Server
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Other Requirements
Java 5.0
Writable data directory
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Datastorage Corendal Wiki Oddmuse TWiki Instiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
Other
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Security/Anti-Spam Corendal Wiki Oddmuse TWiki Instiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Active Directory or Local Accounts
None (use your web server instead)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Development/Support Corendal Wiki Oddmuse TWiki Instiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
67 ⭐
N/A
478 ⭐
Common Features Corendal Wiki Oddmuse TWiki Instiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Corendal Wiki Oddmuse TWiki Instiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Links Corendal Wiki Oddmuse TWiki Instiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Corendal Wiki Oddmuse TWiki Instiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
Perl
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
None
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
No
Usability Corendal Wiki Oddmuse TWiki Instiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics Corendal Wiki Oddmuse TWiki Instiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
No
Output Corendal Wiki Oddmuse TWiki Instiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Optional
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Corendal Wiki Oddmuse TWiki Instiki
File Attachments
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
No
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras Corendal Wiki Oddmuse TWiki Instiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Corendal Wiki Oddmuse TWiki Instiki
Internal Link
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
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
External Link
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[another site](http://example.com)
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_
_italic_, *italic*
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
Aligning Text
no example known
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
----
---
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