Anwiki vs. Foswiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki TracWiki
Version
0.2.5
2.1.11
Pleiades-M45
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2026-03-15 (3 months ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (12 years ago)
2026-03-15 (3 months ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Foswiki Community
team
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
GPL
LGPL
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
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
corporate and special interest groups
Software development teams
System Requirements Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki TracWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Unix/Linux
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
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)
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
perl 4 or newer
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki TracWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
caching of content into database using plugins
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
0
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
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
Apache
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
No
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Development/Support Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
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
Optional
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
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
141
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
No
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki TracWiki
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
Plugin
No
Output Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
No
Extras Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki TracWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Anwiki Foswiki KeheiWiki TracWiki
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
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
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
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
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
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
*bold*
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'''bold'''
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
_italic_
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
,,subscript,,
Images
<img src=""/>
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
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
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
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
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
$ Term: Definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
---
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
----
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