| General Features | DokuWiki | Foswiki | Wicked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
|
2.1.11
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2.0.8
|
| Last Release Date |
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
|
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
|
2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
|
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
|
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
|
| Author |
Andreas Gohr
|
Foswiki Community
|
The Horde Project
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL 2
|
GPL
|
GPL 2
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Perl
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
$0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
personal, small to medium companies
|
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
|
| System Requirements | DokuWiki | Foswiki | Wicked |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
Any
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
Any
|
| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
Text_Wiki from PEAR
|
|
| Datastorage | DokuWiki | Foswiki | Wicked |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
None
|
caching of content into database using plugins
|
None
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | DokuWiki | Foswiki | Wicked |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
25 different backends
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Development/Support | DokuWiki | Foswiki | Wicked |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
4629 ⭐
|
118 ⭐
|
1 ⭐
|
| Common Features | DokuWiki | Foswiki | Wicked |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | DokuWiki | Foswiki | Wicked |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, 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 |
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
None
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Links | DokuWiki | Foswiki | Wicked |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | DokuWiki | Foswiki | Wicked |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
All
|
None
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom styles |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
No
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Usability | DokuWiki | Foswiki | Wicked |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | DokuWiki | Foswiki | Wicked |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Output | DokuWiki | Foswiki | Wicked |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media and Files | DokuWiki | Foswiki | Wicked |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
No
|
| Extras | DokuWiki | Foswiki | Wicked |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Chat |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | DokuWiki | Foswiki | Wicked |
| Internal Link |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[a Link] [namespace:link] [link With a Title] |
| External Link |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
[http://example.com] [http://example.com With a Title] |
| Headlines |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
+ Level 1 Heading ++ Level 2 Heading +++ Level 3 Heading ++++ Level 4 Heading +++++ Level 5 Heading ++++++ Level 6 Heading |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
*bold* |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
_italic_ |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
__underlined__ |
<u>underline</u> |
@@+++ underline @@ |
| Monospace Format |
''monospace'' |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
{{monospace}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
@@--- strikethrough @@ |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
| Images |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
local.jpg http://foo.bar/baz.jpg [http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text] |
| Aligning Text |
Plugin |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
|
| Text Indentation |
N/A |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Bullet one * Sub-bullet |
| Numbered Lists |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# Numero uno # Number two # Sub-item |
| Definition Lists |
Plugin |
$ Term: Definition |
: Item 1 : Something : Item 2 : Something else |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
--- |
---- |
| remove DokuWiki | remove Foswiki | remove Wicked |