Wala Wiki vs. Anwiki vs. Zim

General Features Wala Wiki Anwiki Zim
Version
1.1.7
0.2.5
0.56
Last Release Date
2026-03-14 (3 months ago)
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
2013-06-25 (12 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
Antoine Walter
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain
GPL 3
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
Private users, small teams
System Requirements Wala Wiki Anwiki Zim
Operating System
Linux, *BSD
Linux, Windows, probably others
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any that supports basic CGI.
Apache, probably others with PHP support
None
Other Requirements
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage Wala Wiki Anwiki Zim
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
No
No
Plugin
Other
diffs
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam Wala Wiki Anwiki Zim
Page Permissions
No
Yes
No
ACL
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
File permissions
Host Blocking
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
No
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support Wala Wiki Anwiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wala Wiki Anwiki Zim
Preview
No
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age or Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wala Wiki Anwiki Zim
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
No
No
Comments
Flat
No
No
Categories
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
No
Links Wala Wiki Anwiki Zim
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Features Wala Wiki Anwiki Zim
HTML Tags
None
All
None
Math formulas
No
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
none
none
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
No
Footnotes
No
No
No
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
No
Internal Comments
No
Unknown
No
Custom styles
No
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Unknown
No
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
None
Content Includes
No
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Usability Wala Wiki Anwiki Zim
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics Wala Wiki Anwiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Output Wala Wiki Anwiki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
No
Themes & Skins
No
Unknown
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Unknown
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wala Wiki Anwiki Zim
File Attachments
No
No
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
No
Extras Wala Wiki Anwiki Zim
Calendar
Unknown
No
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Blogs
Unknown
No
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wala Wiki Anwiki Zim
Internal Link
LinkDump, [link dump]
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
= headline =
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
'''bolded'''
<b>bold</b>
**bold**
Italics Format
''italicized''
<i>italic</i>
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
monospaced.
<tt>monospace</tt>
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
^{sup}
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
_{sub}
Images
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
<img src=""/>
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
not implemented
Text Indentation
:Block-quoted text.
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
# Three
<ol>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ol>
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
----
<hr/>
not implemented
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