Anwiki vs. LynxWiki vs. Wikidot vs. WikkaWiki

General Features Anwiki LynxWiki Wikidot WikkaWiki
Version
0.2.5
1.3.0.0
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (12 years ago)
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
J.W. Davidson
Michal Frackowiak
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
Apache License 2.0
AGPLv3
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
C#
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
small organization to enterprise
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Hosting Features Anwiki LynxWiki Wikidot WikkaWiki
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 LynxWiki Wikidot WikkaWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
Windows
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
Yes
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably others with PHP support
IIS7 or IIS8
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
IronPython
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Anwiki LynxWiki Wikidot WikkaWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Unknown
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Unknown
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
No
Unknown
No
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
No
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki LynxWiki Wikidot WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
MS Membership and Roles
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
No
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Anwiki LynxWiki Wikidot 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 LynxWiki Wikidot WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
No
Yes
Special Features Anwiki LynxWiki Wikidot WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
1
English
2
English, Polish
0
Email notification
No
No
Yes
Patch
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links Anwiki LynxWiki Wikidot WikkaWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features Anwiki LynxWiki Wikidot WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
All
None
None
Some
Math formulas
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
IronPython
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Anwiki LynxWiki Wikidot WikkaWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Patch
Statistics Anwiki LynxWiki Wikidot WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Patch
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Patch
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Yes
Output Anwiki LynxWiki Wikidot WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
Patch
PDF Export
No
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files Anwiki LynxWiki Wikidot WikkaWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Media Search
No
Contents
No
No
Extras Anwiki LynxWiki Wikidot WikkaWiki
Calendar
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
No
Yes
Yes
No
Blogs
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Anwiki LynxWiki Wikidot WikkaWiki
Internal Link
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
http://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
+++ headline level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold text**
**bold**
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
_italics_
//italic text//
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
+underlined+
__underlined text__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
{{monospaced text}}
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough text--
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
superscript^234^
^^superscript^^
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
water: H~2~O
,,subscript,,
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
<img src=""/>
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg
[[image src="..."]]
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
N/A
= Centered line
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
N/A
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
* first bullet (8 spaces)
* first sub item bullet
* second item
* element 1
* element 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. first numbered item
1. second item
# element 1
# element 1
(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>
N/A
: item : description
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
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