| General Features | Anwiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.2.5
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2.67
|
2.5.8
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1.4.2
|
| Last Release Date |
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
|
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
|
2026-03-09 (25 days ago)
|
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2013-06-25 (12 years ago)
|
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
|
2026-03-09 (25 days ago)
|
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
|
| Author |
Antoine Walter
|
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
Wikka Development Team
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL 3
|
GPL
|
GPL2+
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Perl
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files
|
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
|
Anyone
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All
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Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
|
| System Requirements | Anwiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, probably others
|
Any
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
any (platform-independent)
|
| 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.
|
any server with PHP/MySQL support
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
||
| Datastorage | Anwiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Other |
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
No
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Anwiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| 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.
|
Active Directory (patch)
|
| 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
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Anwiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| # 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
|
42 ⭐
|
| Common Features | Anwiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| 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
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Anwiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| 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 |
0
|
| Email notification |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
| Comments |
No
|
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | Anwiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| 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
|
Patch
|
| Syntax Features | Anwiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| 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
|
Plugin
|
| 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)
|
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Anwiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Statistics | Anwiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Analysis |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Output | Anwiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media and Files | Anwiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| File Attachments |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Filenames only
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
| Extras | Anwiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Forums |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | Anwiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| 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]] |
CamelCase [[forced]] [[forced|This is a link]] [[forced |日本語]] |
| External Link |
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a> |
[link text](http://example.org) |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
http://wikkawiki.org [[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]] [[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]] |
| 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 |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
| Bold Format |
<b>bold</b> |
**bold** __bold__ |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
<i>italic</i> |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
''italic'' |
//italic// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
{+underlined+} |
__underlined__ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
`inline monospace` indented block of monospaced text tab-indented block |
@@monospace@@ |
##monospaced## |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
{-strikethrough-} |
++Strike through text++ |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>Anwiki</sup> |
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
""<sup>Superscript</sup>"" |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>Anwiki</sub> |
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
""<sub>Subscript</sub>"" |
| Images |
<img src=""/> |
  |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}} |
| 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 |
@@Center text@@ <<left floated<< >>right floated>> |
| Text Indentation |
|
|
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) indented ~indented |
| 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 |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) ~- Item 1 ~~- Item 1.1 ~- Item 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 |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) ~1) Item 1 ~~1) Item 1.1 ~1) Item 2 (more options for lists are available) |
| Definition Lists |
<dl> <dt>item</dt> <dt>item</dt> </dl> |
via HTML: <dl> <dt>term</dt> <dd>definition</dd> </dl> |
: term : definition |
""<dl> <dt>Coffee</dt> <dd>Black hot drink</dd> <dt>Milk</dt> <dd>White cold drink</dd> </dl>"" |
| Horizontal Rule |
<hr/> |
--- *** ___ ------------------ Any number > 3 - - - - - - - - - - spaces don't matter |
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