Oddmuse vs. PmWiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features Oddmuse PmWiki PukiWiki
Version
2.3.13
2.3.33
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2024-04-20 (28 days ago)
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2024-04-21 (27 days ago)
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
All
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements Oddmuse PmWiki PukiWiki
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage Oddmuse PmWiki PukiWiki
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
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse PmWiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support Oddmuse PmWiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
67 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse PmWiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Oddmuse PmWiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Optional
No
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
No
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
No
Links Oddmuse PmWiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features Oddmuse PmWiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
Perl
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Oddmuse PmWiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Patch
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Optional
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
No
Statistics Oddmuse PmWiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output Oddmuse PmWiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Oddmuse PmWiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras Oddmuse PmWiki PukiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Optional
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Oddmuse PmWiki PukiWiki
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
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
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://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
'''italic'''
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
{+underlined+}
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
@@monospace@@
N/A
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
{-strikethrough-}
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
'^superscript^'
N/A
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
'_subscript_'
N/A
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text
no example known
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
: term : definition
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
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