Anwiki vs. Foswiki vs. ikiwiki vs. PmWiki vs. Wikidot vs. XoWiki

General Features Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot XoWiki
Version
0.2.5
2.1.11
2.67
2.6.0
0.113
Last Release Date
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2026-05-16 (28 days ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (12 years ago)
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-05-16 (28 days ago)
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
2009-03-13 (17 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Foswiki Community
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Michal Frackowiak
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
AGPLv3
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Perl
PHP
XOTcl and Tcl
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
0
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Anyone
All
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
large and small organizations as well as individuals
Hosting Features Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot XoWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
no limit
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
max uploaded file size limit
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
by Terms Of Service
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
System Requirements Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot XoWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any, or none
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
AOLServer
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Datastorage Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot XoWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
caching of content into database using plugins
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot XoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Unknown
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot XoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot XoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age or Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot XoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
2
English, Polish
3
German, English, Spanish
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot XoWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot XoWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Plugin
None
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Footnotes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Yes
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot XoWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Statistics Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot XoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot XoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Unknown
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot XoWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot XoWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot XoWiki
Internal Link
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[internal]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
External Link
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[link text](http://example.org)
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
Headlines
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
+++ headline level 3
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
*bold*
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
**bold text**
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
_italic_
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italic''
//italic text//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
__underlined text__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
@@monospace@@
{{monospaced text}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough text--
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
Images
<img src=""/>
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[[image src="..."]]
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
= Centered line
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
Bulleted Lists
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* element 1
* element 2
Numbered Lists
<ol>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ol>
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
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
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# element 1
# element 1
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
$ Term: Definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
: term : definition
: item : description
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
---
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
----
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