Anwiki vs. PageWork vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. GWiki vs. TWiki

General Features Anwiki PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
Version
0.2.5
0.4.8
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
2.4.0
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2010-12-12 (13 years ago)
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (4 days ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (10 years ago)
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (3 days ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Pitt Murmann
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Roger Rene Kommer
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
GPLv3
GPL 2
GPL2+
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, Files
Files
Files
Database, Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
none
0
0
Free
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
Medium-sized sites
personal, small to medium companies
All
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements Anwiki PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Any
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
All Java Servlet Container, included
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
none
Java 1.8+
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Anwiki PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Patch
No
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Google Datastore
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
Proprietary
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Internal and external with adapter
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
No
No
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Development/Support Anwiki PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
4 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Anwiki PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age or Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Anwiki PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
2
German, English
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
2
German, English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links Anwiki PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Anwiki PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
none
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability Anwiki PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics Anwiki PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Output Anwiki PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files Anwiki PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras Anwiki PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Anwiki PageWork DokuWiki PmWiki GWiki TWiki
Internal Link
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.com]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
**bold**
'''bold'''
*Bold Format*
*bold*
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
//italics//
''italic''
_Italic format_
_italic_
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
This is __underlined__.
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
+Unterlined+
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
This is %%monospaced%%.
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
{{Monospace}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
This is --not-- important.
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
-StrikeThrough-
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^Superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
~Subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
<img src=""/>
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
<ol>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ol>
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
: term : definition
Plugin
: term : definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
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