Anwiki vs. ikiwiki vs. Zwiki

General Features Anwiki ikiwiki Zwiki
Version
0.2.5
2.67
0.61
Last Release Date
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (12 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
Anyone
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements Anwiki ikiwiki Zwiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
Any
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Any, or none
Zope
Other Requirements
Datastorage Anwiki ikiwiki Zwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Yes
Unknown
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki ikiwiki Zwiki
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
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Patch
Development/Support Anwiki ikiwiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Anwiki ikiwiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
No
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 Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
1
English
0
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Links Anwiki ikiwiki Zwiki
CamelCase
No
Plugin
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features Anwiki ikiwiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
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
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
Footnotes
No
No
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Anwiki ikiwiki Zwiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Patch
Toolbar
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics Anwiki ikiwiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
No
Output Anwiki ikiwiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Anwiki ikiwiki Zwiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Optional
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras Anwiki ikiwiki Zwiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
No
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Yes
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Anwiki ikiwiki Zwiki
Internal Link
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
[[internal]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
[link text](http://example.org)
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
<img src=""/>
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
Text Indentation
Bulleted Lists
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
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
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
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