Anwiki vs. JSPWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features Anwiki JSPWiki ikiwiki
Version
0.2.5
2.11.0
2.67
Last Release Date
2010-12-12 (13 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (10 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Apache Software Foundation
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
all
Anyone
System Requirements Anwiki JSPWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Any, or none
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage Anwiki JSPWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Optional
No
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
No
Oracle
No
Optional
No
SQLite
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki JSPWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Anwiki JSPWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Anwiki JSPWiki ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age or Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Anwiki JSPWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
Email notification
No
Plugin
Yes
Comments
No
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links Anwiki JSPWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Anwiki JSPWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
No
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Yes
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Usability Anwiki JSPWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Optional
No
Statistics Anwiki JSPWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Output Anwiki JSPWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Optional
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Anwiki JSPWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Anwiki JSPWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
No
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Anwiki JSPWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[internal]]
External Link
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
__bold__
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
''italics''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
<img src=""/>
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
<ol>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ol>
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
;term:definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
----
---
***
___
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Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove Anwiki remove JSPWiki remove ikiwiki