MediaWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Anwiki

General Features MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
Version
1.32.2
2.3.33
0.2.5
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-20 (14 days ago)
2010-12-12 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (13 days ago)
2013-06-25 (10 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Antoine Walter
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
GPL 3
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
System Requirements MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
none
Datastorage MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age or Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
Email notification
Optional
Optional
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Unknown
Scripting
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
No
Output MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Unknown
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
No
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Extras MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
<b>bold</b>
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
<i>italic</i>
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
<img src=""/>
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
<center>anwiki</center>
Text Indentation
: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
<ol>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ol>
Definition Lists
; term : definition
: term : definition
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
----
<hr/>
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