ikiwiki vs. MoasdaWiki vs. Anwiki vs. Zwiki

General Features ikiwiki MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki
Version
2.67
3.9.1
0.2.5
0.61
Last Release Date
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2024-10-04 (1 year ago)
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2024-11-03 (1 year ago)
2013-06-25 (13 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Herbert Reiter
Antoine Walter
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
AGPL-3.0-only
GPL 3
GPLv2
Programming Language
Perl
Java
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
personal usage, small teams
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements ikiwiki MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki
Operating System
Any
Any platform with Java VM 17+
Linux, Windows, probably others
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
Built-in
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Zope
Other Requirements
Java VM 17+
Datastorage ikiwiki MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Other
No
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
N/A
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
No
Yes
nofollow
No
No
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
No
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Patch
Development/Support ikiwiki MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
4 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ikiwiki MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
None
Restricted by Age or Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ikiwiki MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
2
German, English
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
0
Email notification
Yes
No
No
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
No
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links ikiwiki MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features ikiwiki MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Footnotes
No
No
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Unknown
Optional
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
JavaScript
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
DTML
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability ikiwiki MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Patch
Toolbar
No
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
No
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Yes
Statistics ikiwiki MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
No
No
Output ikiwiki MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ikiwiki MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
Filenames only
Extras ikiwiki MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Ticket System
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ikiwiki MoasdaWiki Anwiki Zwiki
Internal Link
[[internal]]
[[a link]]
[[a link | with title]]
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
[[http://example.org]]
[[http://example.org | with title]]
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
= Section
== Subsection
=== Sub-subsection
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
''bold''
<b>bold</b>
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
##italic##
<i>italic</i>
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
@@monospace font@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
~~striked through~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
{{html}}<sup>superscript</sup>{{/html}}
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
{{html}}<sub>subscript</sub>{{/html}}
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
{{image:wiki.png}}
<img src=""/>
Aligning Text
{{center}}centered text
<center>anwiki</center>
Text Indentation
Non-indented text

Single indented text

Double indented text
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
Numbered Lists
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
<ol>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ol>
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
{{html}}
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
{{/html}}
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
----
<hr/>
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