wxWikiServer vs. Corendal Wiki vs. Instiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki Instiki Oddmuse
Version
1.5.11c
3.0.2
0.30.0
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2005-12-02 (18 years ago)
2010-04-22 (14 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-07 (18 years ago)
2010-04-23 (14 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
Ryan Norton
Thierry Danard
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
GPL
Ruby's
GPL
Programming Language
C++
Java
Ruby on Rails
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
NA
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End users/Desktop
Corporate
general, education
family people, hackers
System Requirements wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki Instiki Oddmuse
Operating System
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Unix / Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
built-in
Apache Tomcat, Oracle Application Server
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
None
Java 5.0
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Writable data directory
Datastorage wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki Instiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
No
Security/Anti-Spam wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki Instiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
unknown
Active Directory or Local Accounts
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
Unknown
No
nofollow
No
No
Unknown
No
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki Instiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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67 ⭐
Common Features wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki Instiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki Instiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Flat
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Links wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki Instiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki Instiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Plugin
Math formulas
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
No
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
No
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
no
None
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
No
Yes
Usability wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki Instiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
No
No
No
Page Templates
No
No
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Statistics wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki Instiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
No
No
Output wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki Instiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
No
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
No
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki Instiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
No
No
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
No
No
No
Embedded Video
No
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
No
Filenames only
Extras wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki Instiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
No
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Unknown
No
No
No
Blogs
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples wxWikiServer Corendal Wiki Instiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
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://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
[another site](http://example.com)
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
''' bold text '''
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
'' italic text ''
_italic_, *italic*
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
start line with blank space.
`monospace`
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
] centred text
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
no example known
Text Indentation
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
* two.1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. 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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