Anwiki vs. ikiwiki vs. PmWiki vs. Wikidot

General Features Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot
Version
0.2.5
2.67
2.5.8
Last Release Date
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2026-03-09 (25 days ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (12 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-03-09 (25 days ago)
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Michal Frackowiak
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
GPL
GPL2+
AGPLv3
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
Anyone
All
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Hosting Features Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
no limit
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
max uploaded file size limit
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
by Terms Of Service
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
System Requirements Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
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.
Other Requirements
none
Datastorage Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Unknown
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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.
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Yes
Development/Support Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
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
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
2
English, Polish
Email notification
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot
CamelCase
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Plugin
None
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Yes
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)
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
No
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Output Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
Yes
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot
File Attachments
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Anwiki ikiwiki PmWiki Wikidot
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]]
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
External Link
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
[link text](http://example.org)
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
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
+++ headline level 3
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
**bold text**
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italic''
//italic text//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
__underlined text__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
@@monospace@@
{{monospaced text}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough text--
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
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 src="..."]]
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
= Centered line
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
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
* element 1
* element 2
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
# element 1
# element 1
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
: term : definition
: item : description
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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