| General Features | bLADE Wiki | Foswiki |
|---|---|---|
| Version |
3.4.9
|
2.1.11
|
| Last Release Date |
2008-11-10 (17 years ago)
|
2026-03-15 (7 months ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2008-11-21 (17 years ago)
|
2026-03-15 (7 months ago)
|
| Author |
Dale Lane
|
Foswiki Community
|
| URL | ||
| Free and Open Source |
No
|
Yes
|
| License |
N/A
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
C#
|
Perl
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free
|
$0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Users wanting to be able to view/edit their wiki from a mobile phone or PDA, with a simple wiki that needs almost no setup
|
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
| System Requirements | bLADE Wiki | Foswiki |
| Operating System |
Windows, Windows Mobile
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
N/A
|
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
| Other Requirements |
.NET 2 Framework
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
| Datastorage | bLADE Wiki | Foswiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Yes
|
| Other |
caching of content into database using plugins
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | bLADE Wiki | Foswiki |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
No
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Development/Support | bLADE Wiki | Foswiki |
| # of Consultants | ||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||
| Issue Tracker | ||
| Mailing List | ||
| Support Forum | ||
| Chat Channel | ||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
118 ⭐
|
| Common Features | bLADE Wiki | Foswiki |
| Preview |
No
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
No
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | bLADE Wiki | Foswiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
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 |
No
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
None
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Links | bLADE Wiki | Foswiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| SisterWiki |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | bLADE Wiki | Foswiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
No
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | bLADE Wiki | Foswiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | bLADE Wiki | Foswiki |
| Recent Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Unknown
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Output | bLADE Wiki | Foswiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | bLADE Wiki | Foswiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
|
| Extras | bLADE Wiki | Foswiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | bLADE Wiki | Foswiki |
| Internal Link |
[Link to a page] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
| External Link |
[http://www.linkme.com] |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
| Headlines |
+Heading |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
| Bold Format |
*bold text* |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
=italic text= |
_italic_ |
| Underline Format |
_underlined text_ |
<u>underline</u> |
| Monospace Format |
[|code sample|] |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough text- |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[$image.jpg$] |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
| Aligning Text |
|
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
| Text Indentation |
> blockquote text |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
| Bulleted Lists |
- bulleted |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# numbered |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
$ Term: Definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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