Aneuch vs. ikiwiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features Aneuch ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Version
0.50
2.67
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.7.3
Last Release Date
2016-02-17 (10 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
2026-07-26 (4 days ago)
Last Update here
2016-06-28 (10 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
2026-07-26 (4 days ago)
Author
Aaron Graves
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL 2
GPL2+
Programming Language
PERL
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
Anyone
personal, small to medium companies
All
System Requirements Aneuch ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Operating System
Any
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any (only tested on Apache)
Any, or none
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
none
Datastorage Aneuch ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
None
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Aneuch ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Simple
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Optional
Development/Support Aneuch ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
N/A
4693 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Aneuch ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Aneuch ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Links Aneuch ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Aneuch ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
None
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability Aneuch ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Aneuch ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output Aneuch ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files Aneuch ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras Aneuch ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples Aneuch ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[[Page]]
[[Page|page description]]
[[internal]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[[http://www.google.com/]]
[[http://www.google.com/|Google]]
[link text](http://example.org)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
= H1 =
= H1
=== H3
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
`monospace`
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
{{image.jpg}}
{{image.jpg|alt text}}
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Plugin
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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