Anwiki vs. Foswiki vs. ikiwiki vs. WiGit

General Features Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki WiGit
Version
0.2.5
2.1.11
2.67
0.1
Last Release Date
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2008-07-21 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (12 years ago)
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2009-07-09 (16 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Foswiki Community
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Remko Tronçon
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
other
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
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
Private users
System Requirements Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki WiGit
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any, or none
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Git
Datastorage Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki WiGit
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Yes
No
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
caching of content into database using plugins
Git repositories
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki WiGit
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki WiGit
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki WiGit
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age or Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki WiGit
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
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
0
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Links Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki WiGit
CamelCase
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki WiGit
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Usability Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki WiGit
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
No
Plugin
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Statistics Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki WiGit
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
No
Output Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki WiGit
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki WiGit
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki WiGit
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki WiGit
Internal Link
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[internal]]
[InternalLink]
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)
"External link":http://externallink.com
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
---------
h1. Headline
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
*bold*
**bold**
__bold__
*Bold*
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
_italic_
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
_Italics_
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)
!image.jpg!
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
>Right-aligned
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
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
* Bulleted
* List
** Sublist
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
# Numbered
# List
## Sublist
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
$ Term: Definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
---
---
***
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Any number > 3
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spaces don't matter
remove Anwiki remove Foswiki remove ikiwiki remove WiGit