Anwiki vs. ikiwiki vs. PmWiki vs. Wikepage vs. Zim

General Features Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikepage Zim
Version
0.2.5
2.67
2.5.8
2008.1
0.56
Last Release Date
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2026-03-09 (25 days ago)
2008-10-14 (17 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (12 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-03-09 (25 days ago)
2008-10-24 (17 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Jose Carlos Medeiros
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files
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.
Anyone
All
Private users, small groups
Private users, small teams
System Requirements Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikepage Zim
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Platform Independent
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Any, or none
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Server Independent
None
Other Requirements
none
n/a
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikepage Zim
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikepage Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
File permissions
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikepage Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikepage Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age or Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikepage Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
1
English
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
No
No
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Links Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikepage Zim
CamelCase
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Syntax Features Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikepage Zim
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Plugin
None
None
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
none
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Footnotes
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
None
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikepage Zim
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
No
No
Statistics Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikepage Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Output Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikepage Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikepage Zim
File Attachments
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
No
Extras Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikepage Zim
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Ticket System
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikepage Zim
Internal Link
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
[[internal]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[Link_type]
[http://externallink.com]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
[link text](http://example.org)
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://externallink.com/|click]
[http://externallink.com/|picture.gif]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Biggest
!! Smaller
!!! Smallest
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
**Bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italic''
''Italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
__Underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
@@monospace@@
With a space in front of the text
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
{-strikethrough-}
n/a
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
'^superscript^'
n/a
^{sup}
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
'_subscript_'
n/a
_{sub}
Images
<img src=""/>
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[image.gif]
[http://externalimage.com/image.gif]
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
n/a
not implemented
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
n/a
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Bullet1
* Bullet2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
<ol>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ol>
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
n/a
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
: term : definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
----
---
not implemented
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