ProWiki vs. Anwiki vs. ikiwiki

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

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

heading 1
=========

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

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
<del>strikethrough</del>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
<img src=""/>
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
<center>anwiki</center>
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
# numbered list
## numbered list
<ol>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ol>
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
; term: definition
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
<hr/>
---
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Any number > 3
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spaces don't matter
remove ProWiki remove Anwiki remove ikiwiki