Anwiki vs. Foswiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features Anwiki Foswiki PukiWiki
Version
0.2.5
2.1.11
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2026-03-15 (3 months ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (12 years ago)
2026-03-15 (3 months ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Foswiki Community
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files
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
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements Anwiki Foswiki PukiWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage Anwiki Foswiki PukiWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
caching of content into database using plugins
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki Foswiki PukiWiki
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
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Patch
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support Anwiki Foswiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Anwiki Foswiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age or Number
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Anwiki Foswiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Links Anwiki Foswiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
No
Syntax Features Anwiki Foswiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
No
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Anwiki Foswiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics Anwiki Foswiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Output Anwiki Foswiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Anwiki Foswiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras Anwiki Foswiki PukiWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
No
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Optional
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Anwiki Foswiki PukiWiki
Internal Link
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
*bold*
''bold''
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
_italic_
'''italic'''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
N/A
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
N/A
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
N/A
Images
<img src=""/>
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
Bulleted Lists
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists
<ol>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ol>
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
$ Term: Definition
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
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