Anwiki vs. Foswiki vs. Wicked

General Features Anwiki Foswiki Wicked
Version
0.2.5
2.1.11
2.0.8
Last Release Date
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2026-03-15 (3 months ago)
2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (12 years ago)
2026-03-15 (3 months ago)
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Foswiki Community
The Horde Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Database
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
System Requirements Anwiki Foswiki Wicked
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Datastorage Anwiki Foswiki Wicked
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
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
None
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki Foswiki Wicked
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
25 different backends
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support Anwiki Foswiki Wicked
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
118 ⭐
1 ⭐
Common Features Anwiki Foswiki Wicked
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Anwiki Foswiki Wicked
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
No
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Links Anwiki Foswiki Wicked
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
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
No
Syntax Features Anwiki Foswiki Wicked
HTML Tags
All
All
None
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
No
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
No
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
No
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability Anwiki Foswiki Wicked
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics Anwiki Foswiki Wicked
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Output Anwiki Foswiki Wicked
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files Anwiki Foswiki Wicked
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras Anwiki Foswiki Wicked
Calendar
No
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Optional
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Optional
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples Anwiki Foswiki Wicked
Internal Link
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
External Link
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
Headlines
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
_italic_
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
@@+++ underline @@
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
@@--- strikethrough @@
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
<img src=""/>
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
Numbered Lists
<ol>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ol>
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
$ Term: Definition
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
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