Anwiki vs. Friki vs. LionWiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features Anwiki Friki LionWiki PukiWiki
Version
0.2.5
2.1.1
3.2.4
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2004-05-14 (21 years ago)
2010-09-20 (15 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (12 years ago)
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
2010-10-01 (15 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Frank Carver
Adam Živnéř
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
ASL or LGPL
GPL v2
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
private users and small teams
advanced users, minimalists
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements Anwiki Friki LionWiki PukiWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
All PHP supported
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Any that can run or call Java
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Java 1.3 or later
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage Anwiki Friki LionWiki PukiWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki Friki LionWiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
No
Patch
Plugin
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
No
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
Patch
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support Anwiki Friki LionWiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Anwiki Friki LionWiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age or Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Anwiki Friki LionWiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
0
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
No
No
No
Yes
Comments
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Namespaces
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Links Anwiki Friki LionWiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Patch
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Syntax Features Anwiki Friki LionWiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
All
None
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
No
No
No
Plugin
Tables
none
complex
complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Optional
No
No
Textile Support
No
Optional
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Optional
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
No
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
JavaScript (plugin)
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability Anwiki Friki LionWiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
No
Plugin
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
No
Access Keys
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
No
No
Statistics Anwiki Friki LionWiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
No
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
No
Analysis
No
No
No
No
Output Anwiki Friki LionWiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
No
No
Plugin
HTML Export
No
No
No
No
XML export
Yes
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Anwiki Friki LionWiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
Media Search
No
No
No
No
Extras Anwiki Friki LionWiki PukiWiki
Calendar
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Blogs
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Anwiki Friki LionWiki PukiWiki
Internal Link
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
'''bold''
'''bold''
''bold''
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
''italic''
''italics''
'''italic'''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
'__underline__'
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
monospace
N/A
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
'--strikethrough--'
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
N/A
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
N/A
Images
<img src=""/>
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
[path_to_img.jpg]
#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>
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
:        indented
N/A
Bulleted Lists
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
* first
* second
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists
<ol>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ol>
1. first
1. second
# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
title:        description
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
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