Anwiki vs. Foswiki vs. ikiwiki vs. PmWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Zwiki
Version
0.2.5
2.1.11
2.67
2.6.0
0.61
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)
2008-10-28 (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)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Foswiki Community
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Perl
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
0
0
Development status
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
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Zwiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
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.
Zope
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Datastorage Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Zwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
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.
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
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.
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Patch
Development/Support Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age or Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
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
0
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Footnotes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
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)
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Toolbar
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Output Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Zwiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki Zwiki
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]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
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://...]]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
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
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
*bold*
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
_italic_
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
'_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
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
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more 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
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
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
$ Term: Definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
---
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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