Anwiki vs. PukiWiki vs. TWiki

General Features Anwiki PukiWiki TWiki
Version
0.2.5
1.5.1
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (12 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
PukiWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
One theme, one PukiWiki
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements Anwiki PukiWiki TWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
OS independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Anwiki PukiWiki TWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki PukiWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Patch
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Patch
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support Anwiki PukiWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Anwiki PukiWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age or Number
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Anwiki PukiWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
No
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
No
Yes
Links Anwiki PukiWiki TWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
Plugin
Syntax Features Anwiki PukiWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
none
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Yes
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Anwiki PukiWiki TWiki
Section Editing
No
Patch
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Patch
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics Anwiki PukiWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Output Anwiki PukiWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Optional
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Anwiki PukiWiki TWiki
File Attachments
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Extras Anwiki PukiWiki TWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
No
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Optional
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Anwiki PukiWiki TWiki
Internal Link
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
''bold''
*bold*
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
'''italic'''
_italic_
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
%%%underlined%%%
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
N/A
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%strikethrough%%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
<img src=""/>
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
<ol>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ol>
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
:term|definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
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