Anwiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. ProntoWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. SubWiki vs. Wiclear

General Features Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
Version
0.2.5
1.45.3
2.3.13
1.0.1
1.5.1
0.1-dev
1.0
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)
no official
2007-08-07 (18 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)
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
2007-09-16 (18 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
Greg Stein
David Jobet
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
GPL
GPL
BSD
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Academic Free License
GPL2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
C#
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Files
Database
Files
RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Alpha
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
private users
System Requirements Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Anything supported by Perl
Windows
OS independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
All
Root Access
No
No
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
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
Apache
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.
MySql
Datastorage Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Unknown
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Yes
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)
No
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
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
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
No
Patch
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Development/Support Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age or Number
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
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
1
English
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
Email notification
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
No
Plugin
No
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Links Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
CamelCase
No
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Patch
No
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
HTML Tags
All
Some
Plugin
Some
Plugin
None
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
complex
none
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Unknown
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
Optional
Perl
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
None
Not at the moment
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Usability Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Patch
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Statistics Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Optional
No
No
No
No
No
Output Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
File Attachments
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Filenames only
No
No
No
Extras Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
No
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki SubWiki Wiclear
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]]
[Title]
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]]
[Title|http://url.to/]
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
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
''bold''
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italics''
'''italic'''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__under__
%%%underlined%%%
N/A
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
N/A
{{monospaced}}
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
%%strikethrough%%
N/A
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<<super>> (using custom tags)
N/A
N/A
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
N/A
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
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
<center>Centered</center>
no example known
available through custom tags
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
N/A
Text Indentation
: indented line
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
N/A
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
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
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
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
; term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
:term|definition
N/A
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
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Depending on plugins:
----
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