UseMod vs. Hatta vs. TWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PmWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features UseMod Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki PhpWiki
Version
1.2.2
1.6.6
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.13
2.6.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Radomir Dopieralski
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Alex Schroeder
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL v2
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Python
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
family people, hackers
All
Any
System Requirements UseMod Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Mercurial
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
none
various opt. helpers
Datastorage UseMod Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
No
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
n/a
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
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.
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Patch
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Patch
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Development/Support UseMod Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
89 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features UseMod Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
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
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features UseMod Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
No
Interface Languages
0
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
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
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
No
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Links UseMod Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features UseMod Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Some
None
All
Plugin
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
None
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Perl
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability UseMod Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics UseMod Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output UseMod Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files UseMod Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras UseMod Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples UseMod Hatta TWiki Oddmuse PmWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
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
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
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://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
_italic_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
n/a
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
{{{verbatim}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
N/A
n/a
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
'^superscript^'
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
'_subscript_'
<sub>below</sub>
Images
http://url.com/pic.gif
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
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
[ 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
N/A
n/a
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
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
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
: indented
n/a
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
** sublist
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
n/a
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
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
# list
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
n/a
$ Term: Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
: term : definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
Depending on plugins:
----
----
----
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