MediaWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PhpWiki

General Features MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Version
1.32.2
2.3.13
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Alex Schroeder
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
family people, hackers
Any
System Requirements MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Anything supported by Perl
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
various opt. helpers
Datastorage MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
No
Yes
Other
No
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
None (use your web server instead)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
67 ⭐
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Links MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional
Perl
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Optional
No
Plugin
Output MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Extras MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
No
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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 or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>below</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
no example known
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
: indented line
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** two
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# list
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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