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Feature Comparison
| General Features | Foswiki  | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|
 Version |
 1.1.5 |
1.17.0 |
| Last Release Date |
2012-04-11 |
2011-06-22 |
| Author |
Foswiki Community |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
| URL |
foswiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
| License |
GPL |
GPL |
| Programming Language |
Perl |
PHP |
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS |
Database |
| License Cost/ Fee |
$0 |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
| System Requirements | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
| Root Access |
 No |
No |
| Webserver |
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI |
Any with PHP support |
| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies |
none |
| Datastorage | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes |
No |
| MySQL |
No |
Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
No |
Yes |
| Oracle |
No |
Yes |
| SQLite |
No |
Yes |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
| RCS |
Yes |
No |
| Other |
caching of content into database using plugins |
No |
| Security/Anti-Spam | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
No |
| Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos |
Yes |
| Host Blocking |
 Plugin |
Yes |
| Mail Encryption |
Yes |
Plugin |
| nofollow |
Yes |
 Optional |
| Blacklist |
Plugin |
Yes |
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Delayed Indexing |
Plugin |
No |
| Development/Support | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 16 listed |
Yes, 63 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
foswiki.org |
svn.wikimedia.org |
| Issue Tracker |
foswiki.org |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
| Mailing List |
foswiki.org |
lists.wikimedia.org |
| Support Forum |
foswiki.org |
mwusers.com |
| IRC Channel |
foswiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
| Common Features | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page History |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
| Special Features | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
No |
Yes |
| Interface Languages |
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 |
140 languages Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
| Email notification |
Yes |
Optional |
| Comments |
Plugin |
Discussion Pages |
| Categories |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Structured Data |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Links | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes |
No |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Plugin |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
Plugin |
No |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
Plugin |
No |
| Page Redirects |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Syntax Features | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All |
Some |
| Math formulas |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
No |
| Markdown Support |
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
No |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin |
Optional |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Footnotes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Quoting |
Yes |
No |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Yes |
No |
| Scripting |
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language |
Optional |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Usability | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin |
Optional |
| Toolbar |
Plugin |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
Yes |
| Statistics | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
No |
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Analysis |
Yes |
Optional |
| Output | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View |
Print CSS |
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin |
No |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
| Abbreviations |
Plugin |
No |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
| XML export |
Plugin |
Yes |
| PDF Export |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Media and Files | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Yes |
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Embedded Video |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Image Editing |
Plugin |
No |
| SVG Editing |
Plugin |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Media Search |
Contents |
Keywords |
| Extras | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Forums |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Blogs |
Plugin |
No |
| Ticket System |
Plugin |
No |
| Syntax Examples | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
_italic_ |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGe{"image.png"}% |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
---- |
| Last updated | 2012-04-11 | 2011-06-22 |
