TWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Hatta vs. UseMod vs. PmWiki vs. Zim

General Features TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod PmWiki Zim
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.13
1.6.6
1.2.2
2.6.0
0.56
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (8 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2026-05-16 (2 months ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2026-05-16 (2 months ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Alex Schroeder
Radomir Dopieralski
Clifford Adams
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL v2
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Python
Perl
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
free
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
family people, hackers
All
Private users, small teams
System Requirements TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod PmWiki Zim
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
None
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
Mercurial
none
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod PmWiki Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Optional
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod PmWiki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
n/a
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
File permissions
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
nofollow
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Yes
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
No
Patch
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
No
No
Optional
No
Development/Support TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod PmWiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
89 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod PmWiki Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
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
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod PmWiki Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
0
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
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Optional
No
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
No
No
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Links TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod PmWiki Zim
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod PmWiki Zim
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
None
Some
Plugin
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Perl
JavaScript
None
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Usability TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod PmWiki Zim
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Statistics TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod PmWiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Output TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod PmWiki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod PmWiki Zim
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
No
Extras TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod PmWiki Zim
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
No
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki Oddmuse Hatta UseMod PmWiki Zim
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
n/a
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{{verbatim}}}
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
@@monospace@@
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
n/a
N/A
{-strikethrough-}
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
n/a
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^{sup}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
n/a
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
_{sub}
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
http://url.com/pic.gif
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
n/a
N/A
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
not implemented
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
n/a
: indented
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* list
** sublist
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
n/a
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
n/a
;Term:Definition
: term : definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
---
Depending on plugins:
----
----
----
----
not implemented
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