CanvasWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Anwiki

General Features CanvasWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
Version
1.2.101
1.32.2
2.3.33
0.2.5
Last Release Date
2006-06-14 (17 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-20 (4 days ago)
2010-12-12 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-09-01 (15 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (3 days ago)
2013-06-25 (10 years ago)
Author
Raymond Camden
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Antoine Walter
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache
GPL
GPL2+
GPL 3
Programming Language
ColdFusion
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Mildly technical
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
System Requirements CanvasWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Solaris
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Other Requirements
ColdFusion MX
none
none
Datastorage CanvasWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Unknown
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Other
Access, SQL Server
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
Security/Anti-Spam CanvasWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
Host Blocking
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Development/Support CanvasWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features CanvasWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
Preview
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age or Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features CanvasWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
0
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Optional
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links CanvasWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
No
Freelinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features CanvasWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Scripting
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability CanvasWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics CanvasWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
Output CanvasWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files CanvasWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Extras CanvasWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples CanvasWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Anwiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
<b>bold</b>
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
<i>italic</i>
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
<img src=""/>
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
<center>anwiki</center>
Text Indentation
: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
<ol>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ol>
Definition Lists
; term : definition
: term : definition
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
----
<hr/>
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