Anwiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PukiWiki vs. Wiki on a Stick

General Features Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki Wiki on a Stick
Version
0.2.5
1.45.3
2.3.13
1.5.1
0.12.0
Last Release Date
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2010-06-21 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (12 years ago)
2026-06-03 (1 day ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2010-08-24 (15 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Alex Schroeder
PukiWiki Development Team
legolas558
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
GPL
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
PHP
JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
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
Advanced End Users
System Requirements Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki Wiki on a Stick
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Anything supported by Perl
OS independent
OS Independent (Browser Application)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
JavaScript-capable browser
Datastorage Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki Wiki on a Stick
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
No
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
No
No
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Self-modifying XHTML file, can export into XHTML and WSIF
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki Wiki on a Stick
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
Yes
None (use your web server instead)
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Supports per-page AES encryption
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
No
No
No
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
Patch
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
No
Development/Support Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki Wiki on a Stick
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 PukiWiki Wiki on a Stick
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age or Number
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Restricted by Number
None
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki Wiki on a Stick
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
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
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
2
English, Italian
Email notification
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Links Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki Wiki on a Stick
CamelCase
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
Syntax Features Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki Wiki on a Stick
HTML Tags
All
Some
Plugin
Plugin
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
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)
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki Wiki on a Stick
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Patch
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Statistics Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki Wiki on a Stick
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Output Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki Wiki on a Stick
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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 PukiWiki Wiki on a Stick
File Attachments
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki Wiki on a Stick
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Blogs
No
Unknown
Optional
Optional
No
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Anwiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki Wiki on a Stick
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
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[WoaS test page]]
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
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[http://stickwiki.sf.net/|WoaS Official Website]]
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
= Header 1
== Header 2
=== Header 3
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
''bold''
*bold text*
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
'''italic'''
/italics text/
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
%%%underlined%%%
_underlined text_
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
N/A
{{{this text will not render wiki syntax}}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
N/A
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
N/A
Images
<img src=""/>
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
[[Image::woas.png]]
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
<center>Centered</center>
no example known
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
: indented line
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
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
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
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
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
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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