Anwiki vs. PageWork vs. ErfurtWiki vs. BookStack

General Features Anwiki PageWork ErfurtWiki BookStack
Version
0.2.5
0.4.8
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
v21.12.1
Last Release Date
2010-12-12 (13 years ago)
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
2005-06-15 (18 years ago)
2022-01-05 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (10 years ago)
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
2010-04-04 (14 years ago)
2022-01-08 (2 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Pitt Murmann
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Dan Brown
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
GPLv3
Public Domain (!)
MIT
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
none
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
Medium-sized sites
small + medium sites, development teams
Small to mid-size groups and businesses
System Requirements Anwiki PageWork ErfurtWiki BookStack
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
Any
any
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Any
anything with PHP support
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
none
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
Datastorage Anwiki PageWork ErfurtWiki BookStack
Text Files
No
Yes
Plugin
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Patch
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
Plugin
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
no
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki PageWork ErfurtWiki BookStack
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
Proprietary
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Patch
No
Development/Support Anwiki PageWork ErfurtWiki BookStack
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
N/A
N/A
10374 ⭐
Common Features Anwiki PageWork ErfurtWiki BookStack
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age or Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Anwiki PageWork ErfurtWiki BookStack
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Patch
Yes
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
2
German, English
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
No
Plugin
No
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
No
Links Anwiki PageWork ErfurtWiki BookStack
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features Anwiki PageWork ErfurtWiki BookStack
HTML Tags
All
All
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
No
Tables
none
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Optional
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
optional
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability Anwiki PageWork ErfurtWiki BookStack
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Patch
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Optional
No
Auto Signature
No
No
No
No
Statistics Anwiki PageWork ErfurtWiki BookStack
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Optional
No
Analysis
No
No
No
No
Output Anwiki PageWork ErfurtWiki BookStack
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Optional
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Optional
No
PDF Export
No
No
Optional
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files Anwiki PageWork ErfurtWiki BookStack
File Attachments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Optional
Media Search
No
Keywords
No
Filenames only
Extras Anwiki PageWork ErfurtWiki BookStack
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
No
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Anwiki PageWork ErfurtWiki BookStack
Internal Link
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
''ialic text''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
This is __underlined__.
optional or via css
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
This is %%monospaced%%.
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
This is --not-- important.
optional or via css
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
optional or via css
Images
<img src=""/>
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
optional or via css
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
<ol>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ol>
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
: term : definition
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
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