ProWiki vs. Hatta vs. ikiwiki vs. Anwiki

General Features ProWiki Hatta ikiwiki Anwiki
Version
2.0.045
1.6.6
2.67
0.2.5
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2013-06-25 (13 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
Radomir Dopieralski
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Antoine Walter
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL v2
GPL
GPL 3
Programming Language
Perl
Python
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Anyone
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
System Requirements ProWiki Hatta ikiwiki Anwiki
Operating System
Unix / Linux
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Any
Linux, Windows, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Any, or none
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
Mercurial
Datastorage ProWiki Hatta ikiwiki Anwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Other
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki Hatta ikiwiki Anwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
n/a
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
No
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support ProWiki Hatta ikiwiki Anwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features ProWiki Hatta ikiwiki Anwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age or Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProWiki Hatta ikiwiki Anwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
1
English
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
Email notification
Yes
No
Yes
No
Comments
No
No
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Links ProWiki Hatta ikiwiki Anwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features ProWiki Hatta ikiwiki Anwiki
HTML Tags
Some
None
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
No
No
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Scripting
JavaScript
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
Content Includes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability ProWiki Hatta ikiwiki Anwiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
No
Toolbar
No
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
No
Access Keys
No
No
No
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
No
Statistics ProWiki Hatta ikiwiki Anwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
No
Output ProWiki Hatta ikiwiki Anwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Optional
Optional
Yes
Unknown
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki Hatta ikiwiki Anwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras ProWiki Hatta ikiwiki Anwiki
Calendar
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Unknown
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
No
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki Hatta ikiwiki Anwiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
[[internal]]
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
External Link
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
[link text](http://example.org)
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
Headlines
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
<b>bold</b>
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
<i>italic</i>
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
n/a
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{verbatim}}}
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

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