Anwiki vs. Foswiki vs. WiGit vs. XoWiki

General Features Anwiki Foswiki WiGit XoWiki
Version
0.2.5
2.1.11
0.1
0.113
Last Release Date
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
2008-07-21 (17 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (12 years ago)
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
2009-07-09 (16 years ago)
2009-03-13 (17 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Foswiki Community
Remko Tronçon
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
XOTcl and Tcl
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
other
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
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
Private users
large and small organizations as well as individuals
System Requirements Anwiki Foswiki WiGit XoWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
AOLServer
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Git
Datastorage Anwiki Foswiki WiGit XoWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
caching of content into database using plugins
Git repositories
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki Foswiki WiGit XoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Unknown
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Development/Support Anwiki Foswiki WiGit XoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Anwiki Foswiki WiGit XoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Unknown
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
Unknown
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Anwiki Foswiki WiGit XoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
0
3
German, English, Spanish
Email notification
No
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
No
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links Anwiki Foswiki WiGit XoWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features Anwiki Foswiki WiGit XoWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Yes
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability Anwiki Foswiki WiGit XoWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
No
Plugin
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Statistics Anwiki Foswiki WiGit XoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
No
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Yes
Output Anwiki Foswiki WiGit XoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
Unknown
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Anwiki Foswiki WiGit XoWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
No
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Contents
Extras Anwiki Foswiki WiGit XoWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Anwiki Foswiki WiGit XoWiki
Internal Link
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[InternalLink]
External Link
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
"External link":http://externallink.com
Headlines
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
h1. Headline
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
*bold*
*Bold*
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
_italic_
_Italics_
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
+underlined+
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>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~subscript~
Images
<img src=""/>
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
!image.jpg!
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
>Right-aligned
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Bulleted
* List
** Sublist
Numbered Lists
<ol>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ol>
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Numbered
# List
## Sublist
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
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