Anwiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. ProntoWiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Version
0.2.5
1.45.3
2.3.13
1.0.1
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2026-06-04 (today)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (12 years ago)
2026-06-03 (1 day ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Alex Schroeder
Clay Alberty
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
GPL
GPL
BSD
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
C#
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
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
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Anything supported by Perl
Windows
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
IIS 5+
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Unknown
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
No
No
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
Yes
None (use your web server instead)
.NET Membership platform
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
No
No
No
nofollow
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
No
Patch
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
No
Development/Support Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age or Number
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
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
1
English
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
No
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Links Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Syntax Features Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Plugin
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
Optional
Perl
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Statistics Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Optional
No
No
No
Output Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Extras Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Optional
Blogs
No
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
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
[pagename]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
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
{title|url}
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
!, !!, !!!
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italics''
'''italic'''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__under__
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
N/A
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<<super>> (using custom tags)
N/A
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
N/A
Images
<img src=""/>
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
<center>Centered</center>
no example known
available through custom tags
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
: indented line
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
N/A
Bulleted Lists
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** two
+
++
+++
++++
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
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
#
##
###
####
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
; term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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