Anwiki vs. PmWiki vs. ProWiki

General Features Anwiki PmWiki ProWiki
Version
0.2.5
2.7.4
2.0.045
Last Release Date
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2026-07-31 (17 days ago)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (13 years ago)
2026-07-31 (17 days ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Helmut Leitner
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
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.
All
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
System Requirements Anwiki PmWiki ProWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix / Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Other Requirements
none
none
Datastorage Anwiki PmWiki ProWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki PmWiki ProWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
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
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support Anwiki PmWiki ProWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Anwiki PmWiki ProWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Anwiki PmWiki ProWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
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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
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Links Anwiki PmWiki ProWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Anwiki PmWiki ProWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
No
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
No
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
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
Plugin
No
Usability Anwiki PmWiki ProWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Optional
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Anwiki PmWiki ProWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Output Anwiki PmWiki ProWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Anwiki PmWiki ProWiki
File Attachments
No
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Extras Anwiki PmWiki ProWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Anwiki PmWiki ProWiki
Internal Link
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
External Link
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
Headlines
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
[[strike]strikethrough text]
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>text</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>text</sub>
Images
<img src=""/>
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
Bulleted Lists
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
Numbered Lists
<ol>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ol>
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# numbered list
## numbered list
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
: term : definition
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
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