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General FeaturesBoltWire DetailsDokuWiki DetailsFoswiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Version 3.3.6 (probably later, check the site) 2013-05-10 "Weatherwax" 1.1.7 2.2.19 TWiki 5.1.4
Last Release Date 01/20/2010 2013-05-10 2013-02-01 2010-11-10 2013-02-16
Author Dan Vis Andreas Gohr Foswiki Community Patrick R. Michaud Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL www.boltwire.com www.dokuwiki.org foswiki.org www.pmwiki.org twiki.org
Free and Open Source Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
License Custom - Free GPL 2 GPL GPL2 GPL
Programming Language php PHP Perl PHP Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage Files Files Files, RCS Files Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee 0 0 $0 0 N/A
Development status Mature Mature Mature Mature Mature
Intended Audience General Users & Advanced Developers private, small to medium companies Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet All Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System RequirementsBoltWire DetailsDokuWiki DetailsFoswiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Operating System Windows, Mac, Unix, etc. Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others Linux, Windows, OS-X and others UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access No No No No No
Webserver Any with PHP support Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver. Almost any webserver, typically Apache 1.3/2.0
Other Requirements None   RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies none RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
DatastorageBoltWire DetailsDokuWiki DetailsFoswiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Text Files Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
MySQL No No No Plugin No
PostgreSQL No No No No No
Oracle No No No No No
SQLite No No No Plugin No
BerkeleyDB No No No No No
RCS No No Yes No Yes
Other Easily Customizable Datastorage None caching of content into database using plugins Can provide custom data backends RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-SpamBoltWire DetailsDokuWiki DetailsFoswiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Page Permissions Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
ACL Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Authentication Backends Easily Customizable Authentication Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory, MySQL, (custom available) Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking Yes Plugin Plugin Optional Plugin
Mail Encryption Yes Optional Yes Plugin Yes
nofollow Yes Optional Yes Yes Plugin
Blacklist Yes Optional Plugin Optional Plugin
CAPTCHA Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin
Delayed Indexing Yes Optional Plugin No Plugin
Development/SupportBoltWire DetailsDokuWiki DetailsFoswiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Commercial Support Yes, 1 listed Yes, 36 listed Yes, 16 listed Yes, 7 listed Yes, 33 listed
Preconfigured Hosting No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Code Repository www.boltwire.com github.com foswiki.org svn://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/tags/latest twiki.org
Issue Tracker www.boltwire.com bugs.splitbrain.org foswiki.org www.pmwiki.org twiki.org
Mailing List www.boltwire.com www.freelists.org foswiki.org www.pmichaud.com twiki.org
Support Forum www.boltwire.com forum.dokuwiki.org foswiki.org www.pmichaud.com twiki.org
IRC Channel None www.dokuwiki.org foswiki.org #pmwiki on irc.freenode.net twiki.org
Common FeaturesBoltWire DetailsDokuWiki DetailsFoswiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Preview Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Minor Changes Optional Yes Yes Yes Yes
Change Summary Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Page History Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Page Revisions Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Revision Diffs Between all Between all Between all Between all Between all
Page Index Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Plugin System Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Special FeaturesBoltWire DetailsDokuWiki DetailsFoswiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Unicode Support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Right-to-Left Support Yes Yes No   No
Interface Languages 6 languages
German, English, Italian, Swedish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional		 55 languages
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Marathi, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional		 22 languages
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional		 27 languages
Breton, Catalan, Danish, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Vietnamese		 19 languages
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification Yes Optional Yes Optional Yes
Comments Threaded Plugin Plugin Plugin Threaded
Categories Yes Plugin Plugin Yes Yes
Namespaces Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Page Redirection Yes Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Conflict Handling Conflict Resolution Page Locking Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution
Search Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text
Wiki Farming Yes Optional Optional Yes Optional
Structured Data Yes Plugin Yes Yes Yes
LinksBoltWire DetailsDokuWiki DetailsFoswiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
CamelCase Optional Optional Yes Optional Yes
Freelinks Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Backlinks Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
InterWiki Yes Yes Plugin Yes Yes
SisterWiki Yes No Plugin No Plugin
Image Links Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Windows Shares   Yes Plugin Yes Plugin
Page Redirects Yes Plugin Plugin Yes Plugin
Syntax FeaturesBoltWire DetailsDokuWiki DetailsFoswiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
HTML Tags Some Optional All Plugin All
Math formulas Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin
Tables complex simple simple + complex simple + complex simple + complex
CREOLE support Yes Plugin No Optional No
Markdown Support No Plugin No Plugin No
Textile Support No Plugin No No Plugin
BBCode Support No Plugin No No No
Emoticon Images Yes Yes Plugin Plugin Yes
Syntax Highlighting Yes Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin
Footnotes Yes Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin
Quoting Yes Yes Yes Plugin Yes
Internal Comments Yes Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Custom styles Yes Plugin Yes Yes Yes
FAQ Tags Yes Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Scripting Yes, multiple kinds Optional, PHP JavaScript; Topic Markup Language Plugin TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes Yes Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Feed Aggregation Yes Yes Plugin Plugin Yes
UsabilityBoltWire DetailsDokuWiki DetailsFoswiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Section Editing Yes Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin
Page Templates Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Double-Click Edit Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin
Toolbar Yes Yes Plugin Yes Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing No Plugin Plugin Plugin Yes
Access Keys Plugin Yes Yes Yes Yes
Auto Signature Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
StatisticsBoltWire DetailsDokuWiki DetailsFoswiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Recent Changes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Wanted Pages Yes Plugin No Optional No
Orphaned Pages Yes Plugin Plugin Optional Plugin
Most/Least Popular Optional No Yes No Yes
Recent Visitors Yes No Plugin Plugin Plugin
Analysis Yes Plugin Yes Plugin Yes
OutputBoltWire DetailsDokuWiki DetailsFoswiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
HTML XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Transitional
CSS Stylesheets Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Printer Friendly Print View Print CSS Print View Print View Print View
Mobile Friendly Optional Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin
Themes & Skins Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
RSS Feeds Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
ATOM Feeds Optional Yes Yes Yes Yes
Abbreviations Yes Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin
Auto-TOC Plugin Yes Yes Plugin Yes
Raw Export Plugin Yes Yes Yes Yes
HTML Export Yes Yes Yes Plugin Yes
XML export Optional No Plugin Plugin Plugin
PDF Export No Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin
Media and FilesBoltWire DetailsDokuWiki DetailsFoswiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
File Attachments Yes Yes Yes Optional Yes
Media Revisions No Yes Yes Optional Yes
Embedded Flash Yes Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin
Embedded Video Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin
Image Editing No No Plugin Plugin Plugin
SVG Editing No Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin
MindMap Editing No Plugin Plugin   Plugin
Media Search No Filenames only Contents No Contents
ExtrasBoltWire DetailsDokuWiki DetailsFoswiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Calendar Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin
Image Galleries Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin
Forums Plugin No Plugin Plugin Plugin
Blogs Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin
Ticket System Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin
Syntax ExamplesBoltWire DetailsDokuWiki DetailsFoswiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Internal Link 
[[link|label]]
 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
 
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
 
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[page name #anchor]]
 
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link 
[[www.example.com]]
 
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
 
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
 
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
 
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines 
! Header 1
!! Header 2
!!! Header 3
 
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
 
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
 
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
 
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format 
**bold**
<b>bold</b>
 
**bold**
 
*bold*
 
'''bold'''
 
*bold*
Italics Format 
//italics//
<i>italics</i>
 
//italics//
 
_italic_
 
''italic''
 
_italic_
Underline Format 
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
 
__underlined__
 
<u>underline</u>
 
{+underlined+}
 
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format 
<pre>monospace</pre>
 
''monospace''
 
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
 
@@monospace@@
 
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format 
<strike>strike</strike>
 
<del>strikethrough</del>
 
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
 
{-strikethrough-}
 
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format 
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
'^superscript^'
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
'_subscript_'
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images 
img:image.gif
[^image.gif parameters^]
 
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
 
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGe{"image.png"}%
 
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
 
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text 
<center>text</center>
<right>text</right>
<left>text</left>
 
 Plugin
 
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
 
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
 
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation 
->
Text
<-
 
 N/A
 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
 
-> indented text
 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists 
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
  * item 1
    * item 1.1
  * item 2
 
   * Item 1
      * Item 1.1
   * Item 2
 
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
   * Item 1
      * Item 1.1
   * Item 2
Numbered Lists 
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
 
  - item 1
    - item 1.1
  - item 2
 
   1. Item 1
      a. Item 1.a
   1. Item 2
 
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
 
   1. Item 1
      a. Item 1.a
   1. Item 2
Definition Lists 
<dl><dt><dd>
 
 Plugin
 
   $ Term: Definition
 
: term : definition
 
   $ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule 
----
 
----
 
---
 
----
 
---
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