Oddmuse vs. ProntoWiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Version
2.3.13
1.0.1
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2026-06-04 (today)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Clay Alberty
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
Perl
C#
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
free
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Windows
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
IIS 5+
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
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 Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Text Files
Yes
Unknown
Yes
MySQL
No
Unknown
No
PostgreSQL
No
Unknown
No
Oracle
No
Unknown
No
SQLite
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
Unknown
No
Other
No
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
.NET Membership platform
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
No
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
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
Plugin
No
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Optional
No
Namespaces
Plugin
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Unknown
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
No
Links Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
Patch
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
No
Syntax Features Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
none
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Unknown
No
Textile Support
No
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Optional
Optional
Internal Comments
No
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Perl
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Yes
No
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Patch
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
No
Statistics Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Optional
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Output Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
No
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
No
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
No
No
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Unknown
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Unknown
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Extras Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Unknown
No
Presentations
No
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Optional
Blogs
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Optional
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Oddmuse ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Internal Link
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
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
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
!, !!, !!!
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italics''
'''italic'''
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__under__
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
N/A
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<<super>> (using custom tags)
N/A
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
N/A
Images
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
no example known
available through custom tags
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
+
++
+++
++++
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
#
##
###
####
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
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