PmWiki vs. UseMod vs. PhpWiki vs. Zwiki vs. Oddmuse vs. XWiki

General Features PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
Version
2.6.0
1.2.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
0.61
2.3.13
18.4.0
Last Release Date
2026-05-16 (15 days ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2026-05-27 (4 days ago)
Last Update here
2026-05-16 (15 days ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-05-27 (4 days ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Clifford Adams
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Alex Schroeder
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
GPLv2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
Python
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Any
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
Anything supported by Perl
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Zope
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
none
various opt. helpers
Writable data directory
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
MySQL
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
SQLite
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
ZODB (zope object database)
No
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
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.
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
None (use your web server instead)
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Patch
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Patch
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Patch
No
Yes
Development/Support PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Unknown
No
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
0
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
0
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Links PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Some
Optional
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
None
plugins, templates, PHP
DTML
Perl
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Patch
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Optional
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Patch
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Patch
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Output PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
No
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Media and Files PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Extras PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples PmWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
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
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
N/A
<strike>striked through</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--Strike--
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
,,subscript,,
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
http://url.com/pic.gif
[ 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
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
N/A
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

no example known
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
: indented
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* one
** two
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
: term : definition
;Term:Definition
Term:<def>
def
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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