ProWiki vs. Anwiki vs. ikiwiki vs. Hatta vs. PodWiki

General Features ProWiki Anwiki ikiwiki Hatta PodWiki
Version
2.0.045
0.2.5
2.67
1.6.6
0.9.1
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2013-06-25 (13 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
Antoine Walter
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Radomir Dopieralski
Thomas Linden
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 3
GPL
GPL v2
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl
Python
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
GPL / none
Development status
Mature
Mature
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
average to advanced users
System Requirements ProWiki Anwiki ikiwiki Hatta PodWiki
Operating System
Unix / Linux
Linux, Windows, probably others
Any
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Unix
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Any, or none
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
apache
Other Requirements
none
Mercurial
mod_rewrite optional
Datastorage ProWiki Anwiki ikiwiki Hatta PodWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki Anwiki ikiwiki Hatta PodWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
n/a
builtin
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
No
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
No
Development/Support ProWiki Anwiki ikiwiki Hatta PodWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
#49
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProWiki Anwiki ikiwiki Hatta PodWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age or Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Special Features ProWiki Anwiki ikiwiki Hatta PodWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
1
English
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
1
English
Email notification
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Comments
No
No
Discussion Pages
No
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Links ProWiki Anwiki ikiwiki Hatta PodWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Features ProWiki Anwiki ikiwiki Hatta PodWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
None
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Tables
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Footnotes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
JavaScript
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability ProWiki Anwiki ikiwiki Hatta PodWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
No
No
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
No
No
Access Keys
No
No
No
No
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
No
No
Statistics ProWiki Anwiki ikiwiki Hatta PodWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
No
No
Output ProWiki Anwiki ikiwiki Hatta PodWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki Anwiki ikiwiki Hatta PodWiki
File Attachments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras ProWiki Anwiki ikiwiki Hatta PodWiki
Calendar
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki Anwiki ikiwiki Hatta PodWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
[[internal]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
POD:
L<Sandbox>
L<Link Description|Sandbox>

Creole:
[[Sandbox]]
[[Sandbox|Link Description]]

BBcode:
[url]Sandbox[/url]
[url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url]
External Link
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
[link text](http://example.org)
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
L<http://www.daemon.de>
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
---------
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
=head1 The Weather
Bold Format
'''bold'''
<b>bold</b>
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
B<bold>
Italics Format
''italic''
<i>italic</i>
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italic//
I<italics>
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
n/a
via html only
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
{{{verbatim}}}
put a space in front of monospaced text
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
<del>strikethrough</del>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
n/a
via html only
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
n/a
via html only
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
n/a
via html only
Images
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
<img src=""/>
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
G<logo.png>
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
<center>anwiki</center>
n/a
via stylesheet only
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
n/a
via stylesheet only
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* list
** sublist
=over

=item* listitem

=back
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
n/a
=over

=item 1. listitem

=back
Definition Lists
; term: definition
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
n/a
via html only
Horizontal Rule
----
<hr/>
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
----
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