Anwiki vs. Instiki vs. PmWiki

General Features Anwiki Instiki PmWiki
Version
0.2.5
0.30.0
2.6.0
Last Release Date
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
2026-05-16 (22 days ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (12 years ago)
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
2026-05-16 (22 days ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
Ruby's
GPL2+
Programming Language
PHP
Ruby on Rails
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Files
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.
general, education
All
System Requirements Anwiki Instiki PmWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
none
Datastorage Anwiki Instiki PmWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki Instiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
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
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Optional
nofollow
No
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Optional
Development/Support Anwiki Instiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
506 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Anwiki Instiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
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
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Anwiki Instiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
Email notification
No
No
Optional
Comments
No
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
No
Yes
Links Anwiki Instiki PmWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Anwiki Instiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Yes
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
None
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability Anwiki Instiki PmWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Anwiki Instiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Output Anwiki Instiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Anwiki Instiki PmWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
No
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Extras Anwiki Instiki PmWiki
Calendar
No
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Anwiki Instiki PmWiki
Internal Link
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
[another site](http://example.com)
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
_italic_, *italic*
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospace`
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
<img src=""/>
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
<ol>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ol>
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
term
: definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
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