Anwiki vs. ikiwiki vs. Wikidot vs. XoWiki

General Features Anwiki ikiwiki Wikidot XoWiki
Version
0.2.5
2.67
0.113
Last Release Date
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (12 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
2009-03-13 (17 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Michal Frackowiak
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
GPL
AGPLv3
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
XOTcl and Tcl
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
Anyone
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
large and small organizations as well as individuals
Hosting Features Anwiki ikiwiki Wikidot XoWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
no limit
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
max uploaded file size limit
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
by Terms Of Service
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
System Requirements Anwiki ikiwiki Wikidot XoWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
Any
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Any, or none
AOLServer
Other Requirements
Datastorage Anwiki ikiwiki Wikidot XoWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Unknown
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Unknown
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Unknown
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki ikiwiki Wikidot XoWiki
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
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Unknown
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support Anwiki ikiwiki Wikidot XoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Anwiki ikiwiki Wikidot XoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Unknown
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
No
Yes
Special Features Anwiki ikiwiki Wikidot XoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
1
English
2
English, Polish
3
German, English, Spanish
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links Anwiki ikiwiki Wikidot XoWiki
CamelCase
No
Plugin
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Anwiki ikiwiki Wikidot XoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
None
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Footnotes
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Yes
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Anwiki ikiwiki Wikidot XoWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Optional
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Optional
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Statistics Anwiki ikiwiki Wikidot XoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Yes
Output Anwiki ikiwiki Wikidot XoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
Unknown
XML export
Yes
No
No
Unknown
PDF Export
No
No
No
Unknown
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Anwiki ikiwiki Wikidot XoWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras Anwiki ikiwiki Wikidot XoWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Anwiki ikiwiki Wikidot XoWiki
Internal Link
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
[[internal]]
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
External Link
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
[link text](http://example.org)
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
---------
+++ headline level 3
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
**bold**
__bold__
**bold text**
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italic text//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__underlined text__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
{{monospaced text}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
--strikethrough text--
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
<img src=""/>
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[[image src="..."]]
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
= Centered line
Text 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
* 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
# element 1
# element 1
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
: item : description
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
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spaces don't matter
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