| General Features | Anwiki | Foswiki | ikiwiki | Wikidot |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.2.5
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2.1.11
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2.67
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| Last Release Date |
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
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2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
|
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
|
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| Last Update here |
2013-06-25 (12 years ago)
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2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
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2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
|
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
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| Author |
Antoine Walter
|
Foswiki Community
|
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
|
Michal Frackowiak
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL 3
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GPL
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GPL
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AGPLv3
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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Perl
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Perl
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| Data Storage |
Database, Files
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Files, RCS
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Files, RCS
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Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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$0
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0
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Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
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Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
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Anyone
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companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
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| Hosting Features | Anwiki | Foswiki | ikiwiki | Wikidot |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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no limit
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| Other Limits |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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max uploaded file size limit
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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by Terms Of Service
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| Corporate Branding |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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| Own Domain |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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| Ads allowed |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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| System Requirements | Anwiki | Foswiki | ikiwiki | Wikidot |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, probably others
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Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
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Any
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| Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Apache, probably others with PHP support
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Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
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Any, or none
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| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
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| Datastorage | Anwiki | Foswiki | ikiwiki | Wikidot |
| Text Files |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Unknown
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| MySQL |
Yes
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No
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No
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Unknown
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| PostgreSQL |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
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| Oracle |
No
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No
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No
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Unknown
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| SQLite |
No
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No
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No
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Unknown
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
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No
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No
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Unknown
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| RCS |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Unknown
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| Other |
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
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caching of content into database using plugins
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| Security/Anti-Spam | Anwiki | Foswiki | ikiwiki | Wikidot |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| ACL |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Authentication Backends |
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
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Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
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Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
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| Host Blocking |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| nofollow |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
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Yes
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| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
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Yes
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| Development/Support | Anwiki | Foswiki | ikiwiki | Wikidot |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
4 ⭐
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118 ⭐
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N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | Anwiki | Foswiki | ikiwiki | Wikidot |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Page Revisions |
Restricted by Age or Number
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
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Between all
|
Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Special Features | Anwiki | Foswiki | ikiwiki | Wikidot |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| 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 |
2
English, Polish |
| Email notification |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Comments |
No
|
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
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| Categories |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
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Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
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| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
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Unknown
|
Unknown
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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| Links | Anwiki | Foswiki | ikiwiki | Wikidot |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
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| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| InterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
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| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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| Syntax Features | Anwiki | Foswiki | ikiwiki | Wikidot |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
All
|
Optional
|
None
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| Math formulas |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Tables |
none
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
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| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
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| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
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| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
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| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
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JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
|
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Anwiki | Foswiki | ikiwiki | Wikidot |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
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| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Anwiki | Foswiki | ikiwiki | Wikidot |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
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| Analysis |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Output | Anwiki | Foswiki | ikiwiki | Wikidot |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Themes & Skins |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| 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 | Wikidot |
| File Attachments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| 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 | Wikidot |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Anwiki | Foswiki | ikiwiki | Wikidot |
| Internal Link |
<a href="en/home">go home</a> |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[internal]] |
[[[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://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 --------- |
+++ headline level 3 |
| Bold Format |
<b>bold</b> |
*bold* |
**bold** __bold__ |
**bold text** |
| Italics Format |
<i>italic</i> |
_italic_ |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
//italic text// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
__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 |
{{monospaced text}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
--strikethrough text-- |
| 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"}% |
  |
[[image src="..."]] |
| Aligning Text |
<center>anwiki</center> |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
|
= Centered line |
| Text Indentation |
|
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
|
> 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 |
* 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 |
# 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> |
: item : description |
| Horizontal Rule |
<hr/> |
--- |
--- *** ___ ------------------ Any number > 3 - - - - - - - - - - spaces don't matter |
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