Anwiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Version
0.2.5
1.45.3
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (12 years ago)
2026-06-03 (1 day ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
End Users/Desktop, Education
family people, hackers
System Requirements Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
Datastorage Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
Yes
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
No
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
Common Features Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age or Number
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Optional
Plugin
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
No
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
All
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
Optional
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Statistics Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Optional
No
Output Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
No
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
[http://example.org The title]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
<img src=""/>
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
<center>Centered</center>
no example known
Text Indentation
: indented line
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
<ol>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ol>
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
; term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
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Depending on plugins:
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