Anwiki vs. ikiwiki vs. TWiki

General Features Anwiki ikiwiki TWiki
Version
0.2.5
2.67
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (12 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
Anyone
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements Anwiki ikiwiki TWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Any, or none
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Anwiki ikiwiki TWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Yes
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki ikiwiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support Anwiki ikiwiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Anwiki ikiwiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age or Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Anwiki ikiwiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links Anwiki ikiwiki TWiki
CamelCase
No
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features Anwiki ikiwiki TWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
No
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Anwiki ikiwiki TWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics Anwiki ikiwiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Output Anwiki ikiwiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Anwiki ikiwiki TWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Anwiki ikiwiki TWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Anwiki ikiwiki TWiki
Internal Link
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
[[internal]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
[link text](http://example.org)
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
**bold**
__bold__
*bold*
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
_italic_
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
<img src=""/>
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
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
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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
---
***
___
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Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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