Anwiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. ProntoWiki vs. SubWiki

General Features Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki SubWiki
Version
0.2.5
1.45.3
2.3.13
1.0.1
0.1-dev
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)
no official
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)
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Alex Schroeder
Clay Alberty
Greg Stein
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
GPL
GPL
BSD
Academic Free License
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
C#
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Files
Database
RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Alpha
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 ProntoWiki SubWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Anything supported by Perl
Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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 CGI support
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Datastorage Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki SubWiki
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
Yes
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
No
No
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
No
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki SubWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
No
No
No
Authentication Backends
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
Yes
None (use your web server instead)
.NET Membership platform
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
nofollow
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
No
Development/Support Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki SubWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki SubWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age or Number
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Special Features Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki SubWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
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
1
English
Email notification
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
No
No
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Links Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki SubWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki SubWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Plugin
Some
None
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
none
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
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
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
Optional
Perl
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Usability Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki SubWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Statistics Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki SubWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Optional
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Optional
No
No
No
Output Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki SubWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
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 SubWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Media Search
No
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Extras Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki SubWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
No
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse ProntoWiki SubWiki
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]
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}
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 4 ====
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__
N/A
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{monospaced}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
N/A
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
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
<center>Centered</center>
no example known
available through custom tags
N/A
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
N/A
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
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Depending on plugins:
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