Anwiki vs. Hatta vs. ErfurtWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features Anwiki Hatta ErfurtWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Version
0.2.5
1.6.6
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.67
Last Release Date
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (12 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2026-03-25 (17 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Radomir Dopieralski
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Andreas Gohr
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
GPL v2
Public Domain (!)
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
small + medium sites, development teams
personal, small to medium companies
Anyone
System Requirements Anwiki Hatta ErfurtWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
Other Requirements
Mercurial
none
Datastorage Anwiki Hatta ErfurtWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
no
None
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki Hatta ErfurtWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
n/a
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Patch
Optional
No
Development/Support Anwiki Hatta ErfurtWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
N/A
N/A
4593 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Anwiki Hatta ErfurtWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age or Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Anwiki Hatta ErfurtWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Patch
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Links Anwiki Hatta ErfurtWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features Anwiki Hatta ErfurtWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
All
None
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
none
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
JavaScript
optional
Optional, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability Anwiki Hatta ErfurtWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
No
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Yes
No
Statistics Anwiki Hatta ErfurtWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Output Anwiki Hatta ErfurtWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Anwiki Hatta ErfurtWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras Anwiki Hatta ErfurtWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Anwiki Hatta ErfurtWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[internal]]
External Link
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
//italic//
''ialic text''
//italics//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
n/a
optional or via css
__underlined__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{verbatim}}}
==monospaced text==
''monospace''
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
n/a
optional or via css
<del>strikethrough</del>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
n/a
^^superscript text^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
n/a
optional or via css
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
<img src=""/>
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
[link to the image.jpg]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
n/a
optional or via css
Plugin
Text Indentation
n/a
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
N/A
Bulleted Lists
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
* list
** sublist
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
<ol>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ol>
n/a
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
n/a
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Plugin
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
----
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove Anwiki remove Hatta remove ErfurtWiki remove DokuWiki remove ikiwiki