EditMe vs. Foswiki

General Features EditMe Foswiki
Version
N/A
2.1.11
Last Release Date
N/A
2026-03-15 (7 months ago)
Last Update here
2010-07-12 (16 years ago)
2026-03-15 (7 months ago)
Author
EditMe, LLC
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
Programming Language
N/A
Perl
Data Storage
N/A
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
From $4.95/mo
$0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Hosting Features EditMe Foswiki
Storage Quota
25MB to 4GB
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
1GB to 25GB
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
System Requirements EditMe Foswiki
Operating System
N/A
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
N/A
No
Webserver
N/A
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
N/A
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage EditMe Foswiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
MySQL
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Oracle
N/A
No
SQLite
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
RCS
N/A
Yes
Other
N/A
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam EditMe Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Development/Support EditMe Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features EditMe Foswiki
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
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features EditMe Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
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
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Links EditMe Foswiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features EditMe Foswiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Usability EditMe Foswiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Statistics EditMe Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Output EditMe Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files EditMe Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Extras EditMe Foswiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples EditMe Foswiki
Internal Link
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
Use WYSIWYG editor
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
*bold*
Italics Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
_italic_
Underline Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
Use WYSIWYG editor
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
Use WYSIWYG editor
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
Use WYSIWYG editor
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