PmWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Bloomfire

General Features PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
Version
2.3.33
2.3.13
N/A
Last Release Date
2024-04-20 (29 days ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2024-04-21 (28 days ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2012-04-12 (12 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Alex Schroeder
Bloomfire, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
License
GPL2+
GPL
N/A
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
N/A
Data Storage
Files
Files
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
$5/user/month
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
All
family people, hackers
Internal wiki or company wiki for teams and companies of all sizes. Enterprise to SMB to small product team and everything in between.
Hosting Features PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Unknown
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
N/A
Root Access
No
No
N/A
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Anything supporting CGI scripts
N/A
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
N/A
Datastorage PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
Text Files
Yes
Yes
N/A
MySQL
Plugin
No
N/A
PostgreSQL
No
No
N/A
Oracle
No
No
N/A
SQLite
Plugin
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
RCS
Plugin
No
N/A
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
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)
N/A
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Unknown
Development/Support PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
67 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Optional
No
Interface Languages
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
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
N/A
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
HTML Tags
Plugin
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Textile Support
No
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Quoting
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Unknown
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Usability PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Toolbar
Optional
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Statistics PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
Output PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Unknown
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
File Attachments
Optional
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Unknown
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki Oddmuse Bloomfire
Internal Link
[[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
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
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
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
{+underlined+}
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
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% 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
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
# 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
: term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
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