Aneuch vs. Anwiki vs. Instiki vs. PmWiki vs. WikkaWiki vs. Zim

General Features Aneuch Anwiki Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki Zim
Version
0.50
0.2.5
0.30.0
2.6.0
1.4.2
0.56
Last Release Date
2016-02-17 (10 years ago)
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-06-28 (9 years ago)
2013-06-25 (12 years ago)
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Aaron Graves
Antoine Walter
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Wikka Development Team
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 3
Ruby's
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PERL
PHP
Ruby on Rails
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Database
Files
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
general, education
All
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Private users, small teams
System Requirements Aneuch Anwiki Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki Zim
Operating System
Any
Linux, Windows, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any (platform-independent)
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any (only tested on Apache)
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
any server with PHP/MySQL support
None
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage Aneuch Anwiki Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki Zim
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
None
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam Aneuch Anwiki Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki Zim
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Simple
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Active Directory (patch)
File permissions
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Unknown
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Development/Support Aneuch Anwiki Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
4 ⭐
506 ⭐
N/A
42 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Aneuch Anwiki Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age or Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Aneuch Anwiki Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki Zim
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
1
English
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
0
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
No
No
Optional
Patch
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
No
Categories
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Links Aneuch Anwiki Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki Zim
CamelCase
No
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Syntax Features Aneuch Anwiki Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki Zim
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
All
Plugin
Some
None
Math formulas
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
none
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Quoting
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Internal Comments
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
None
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
None
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
None
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability Aneuch Anwiki Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki Zim
Section Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
No
No
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Statistics Aneuch Anwiki Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
Patch
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Output Aneuch Anwiki Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki Zim
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Patch
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files Aneuch Anwiki Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki Zim
File Attachments
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
Filenames only
No
No
Extras Aneuch Anwiki Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki Zim
Calendar
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Aneuch Anwiki Instiki PmWiki WikkaWiki Zim
Internal Link
[[Page]]
[[Page|page description]]
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
[[http://www.google.com/]]
[[http://www.google.com/|Google]]
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
[another site](http://example.com)
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
= H1 =
= H1
=== H3
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
**bold**
<b>bold</b>
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
<i>italic</i>
_italic_, *italic*
''italic''
//italic//
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
`monospace`
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospace`
@@monospace@@
##monospaced##
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
{-strikethrough-}
++Strike through text++
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
^{sup}
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
_{sub}
Images
{{image.jpg}}
{{image.jpg|alt text}}
<img src=""/>
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
not implemented
Text Indentation
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
<ol>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ol>
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
term
: definition
: term : definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
----
<hr/>
***
----
----
not implemented
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