General Features | Confluence | Foswiki |
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Version |
5.2
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2.1.8
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Last Release Date |
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
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2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
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Last Update here |
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
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2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
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Author |
Atlassian
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Foswiki Community
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URL | ||
Free and Open Source |
No
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Yes
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License |
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
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GPL
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Programming Language |
Java
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Perl
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Data Storage |
Database
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Files, RCS
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License Cost/ Fee |
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
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$0
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Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Intended Audience |
Enterprise + Technical Teams
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Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
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Hosting Features | Confluence | Foswiki |
Storage Quota |
Unlimited
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N/A
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Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
|
Other Limits |
No
|
N/A
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Topic Restrictions |
No
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N/A
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Corporate Branding |
Yes
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N/A
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Own Domain |
Optional
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N/A
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Ads allowed |
No
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N/A
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System Requirements | Confluence | Foswiki |
Operating System |
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
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Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
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Root Access |
No
|
No
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Webserver |
Apache Tomcat
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Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
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Other Requirements |
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
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RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
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Datastorage | Confluence | Foswiki |
Text Files |
No
|
Yes
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MySQL |
Yes
|
No
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PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
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Oracle |
Yes
|
No
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SQLite |
No
|
No
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BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
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RCS |
No
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Yes
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Other |
caching of content into database using plugins
|
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Security/Anti-Spam | Confluence | Foswiki |
Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
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ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
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Authentication Backends |
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
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Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Host Blocking |
No
|
Plugin
|
Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Yes
|
nofollow |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Blacklist |
No
|
Plugin
|
CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Development/Support | Confluence | Foswiki |
# of Consultants | ||
Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
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Code Repository | ||
Issue Tracker | ||
Mailing List | ||
Support Forum | ||
Chat Channel | ||
Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
97 ⭐
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Common Features | Confluence | Foswiki |
Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
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Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
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Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
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Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
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Special Features | Confluence | Foswiki |
Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
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Right-to-Left Support |
No
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No
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Interface Languages |
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
Email notification |
Yes
|
Yes
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Comments |
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Links | Confluence | Foswiki |
CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
InterWiki |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Syntax Features | Confluence | Foswiki |
HTML Tags |
Optional
|
All
|
Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Textile Support |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Scripting |
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Usability | Confluence | Foswiki |
Section Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Statistics | Confluence | Foswiki |
Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
Analysis |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Output | Confluence | Foswiki |
Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Abbreviations |
No
|
Plugin
|
Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
XML export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Media and Files | Confluence | Foswiki |
File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Image Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Media Search |
Contents
|
Contents
|
Extras | Confluence | Foswiki |
Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Blogs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Syntax Examples | Confluence | Foswiki |
Internal Link |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
External Link |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
Headlines |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
Bold Format |
*bold* |
*bold* |
Italics Format |
_italics_ |
_italic_ |
Underline Format |
+underline+ |
<u>underline</u> |
Monospace Format |
{{monospace}} |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
Superscript Format |
^superscript^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
Subscript Format |
~subscript~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
Images |
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%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png %IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
Aligning Text |
|
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
Text Indentation |
|
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
Bulleted Lists |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
Numbered Lists |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
Definition Lists |
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$ Term: Definition |
Horizontal Rule |
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