Anwiki vs. Foswiki vs. KeheiWiki

General Features Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki
Version
0.2.5
2.1.11
Pleiades-M45
Last Release Date
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2026-03-15 (3 months ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (12 years ago)
2026-03-15 (3 months ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Foswiki Community
team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
GPL
LGPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
Development status
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
corporate and special interest groups
System Requirements Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Unix/Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
perl 4 or newer
Datastorage Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
caching of content into database using plugins
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
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
Apache
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Development/Support Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Optional
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age or Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
Tables
none
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Unknown
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Optional
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Optional
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
No
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Output Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Extras Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki
Internal Link
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
External Link
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
Headlines
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
*bold*
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
_italic_
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Images
<img src=""/>
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bulleted Lists
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Numbered Lists
<ol>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ol>
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
$ Term: Definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
---
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
remove Anwiki remove Foswiki remove KeheiWiki