Anwiki vs. mobiki vs. ProWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features Anwiki mobiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Version
0.2.5
2016-06-26
2.0.045
2.67
Last Release Date
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2016-06-26 (10 years ago)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (13 years ago)
2016-06-26 (10 years ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Martin D�ring
Helmut Leitner
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
MIT
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
Text centric websites and mobile use
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Anyone
System Requirements Anwiki mobiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
any
Unix / Linux
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably others with PHP support
any
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Any, or none
Other Requirements
PHP 5.4+
none
Datastorage Anwiki mobiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Yes
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki mobiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support Anwiki mobiki ProWiki ikiwiki
# 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 mobiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age or Number
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
No
No
Yes
Special Features Anwiki mobiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
0
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
1
English
Email notification
No
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
No
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Links Anwiki mobiki ProWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Anwiki mobiki ProWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
All
None
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
none
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
No
Plugin
Footnotes
No
No
Yes
No
Quoting
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability Anwiki mobiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
No
Access Keys
No
No
No
No
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
No
Statistics Anwiki mobiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
No
Output Anwiki mobiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Anwiki mobiki ProWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
No
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
No
Filenames only
Extras Anwiki mobiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
No
No
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Anwiki mobiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
[Internal Link]
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
[[internal]]
External Link
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
http://mobiki.datenbrei.de
[Text|http://mobiki.datenbrei.de]
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
!Headline
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

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

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
n/a
[[strike]strikethrough text]
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
n/a
<sup>text</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
n/a
<sub>text</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
<img src=""/>
http://image.png
image:example.jpg
images:imagefolder
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
___
aligned text
___
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
Text Indentation
n/a
: indented line
:: indented line
Bulleted Lists
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
- One
- Two
* One
* Two
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
<ol>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ol>
0. One
0. Two
0. Three
# numbered list
## numbered list
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>
n/a
; term: definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
---
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove Anwiki remove mobiki remove ProWiki remove ikiwiki