Anwiki vs. PmWiki vs. WiGit vs. XoWiki

General Features Anwiki PmWiki WiGit XoWiki
Version
0.2.5
2.6.0
0.1
0.113
Last Release Date
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2026-05-16 (28 days ago)
2008-07-21 (17 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (12 years ago)
2026-05-16 (28 days ago)
2009-07-09 (16 years ago)
2009-03-13 (17 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Remko Tronçon
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
GPL2+
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
XOTcl and Tcl
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
other
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
All
Private users
large and small organizations as well as individuals
System Requirements Anwiki PmWiki WiGit XoWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
AOLServer
Other Requirements
none
Git
Datastorage Anwiki PmWiki WiGit XoWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Git repositories
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki PmWiki WiGit XoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
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.
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
Host Blocking
No
Optional
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Unknown
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Optional
No
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Development/Support Anwiki PmWiki WiGit XoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Anwiki PmWiki WiGit XoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Unknown
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
Unknown
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Anwiki PmWiki WiGit XoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
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
0
3
German, English, Spanish
Email notification
No
Optional
No
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
No
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links Anwiki PmWiki WiGit XoWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features Anwiki PmWiki WiGit XoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Some
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Quoting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Yes
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability Anwiki PmWiki WiGit XoWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
No
Optional
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Statistics Anwiki PmWiki WiGit XoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Output Anwiki PmWiki WiGit XoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Optional
No
Unknown
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Anwiki PmWiki WiGit XoWiki
File Attachments
No
Optional
No
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras Anwiki PmWiki WiGit XoWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Anwiki PmWiki WiGit XoWiki
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]]
[InternalLink]
External Link
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
"External link":http://externallink.com
Headlines
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
h1. Headline
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
'''bold'''
*Bold*
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
''italic''
_Italics_
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
+underlined+
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
@monospace@
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
'^superscript^'
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
'_subscript_'
~subscript~
Images
<img src=""/>
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
!image.jpg!
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
>Right-aligned
Text Indentation
-> 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
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Bulleted
* List
** Sublist
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
## Sublist
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
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