Anwiki vs. Foswiki vs. ikiwiki vs. Wikidot vs. Zwiki

General Features Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki Wikidot Zwiki
Version
0.2.5
2.1.11
2.67
0.61
Last Release Date
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years 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)
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Foswiki Community
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Michal Frackowiak
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
GPL
GPL
AGPLv3
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
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
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Hosting Features Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki Wikidot Zwiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
no limit
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
max uploaded file size limit
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
by Terms Of Service
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
System Requirements Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki Wikidot Zwiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Any
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
Zope
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki Wikidot Zwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
RCS
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
caching of content into database using plugins
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki Wikidot 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
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Patch
Development/Support Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki Wikidot 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 Wikidot 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
No
Yes
Special Features Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki Wikidot Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
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
2
English, Polish
0
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
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 Wikidot Zwiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki Wikidot Zwiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
None
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki Wikidot Zwiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Toolbar
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki Wikidot Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Output Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki Wikidot Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki Wikidot Zwiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki Wikidot Zwiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Anwiki Foswiki ikiwiki Wikidot Zwiki
Internal Link
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[internal]]
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[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://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
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
---------
+++ 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"}%
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[[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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