Foswiki vs. GWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features Foswiki GWiki Oddmuse
Version
2.1.9
2.4.0
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2018-06-15 (7 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2018-10-16 (7 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
Roger Rene Kommer
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Java
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
Free
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
family people, hackers
System Requirements Foswiki GWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
All Java Servlet Container, included
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 1.8+
Writable data directory
Datastorage Foswiki GWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
Google Datastore
No
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki GWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal and external with adapter
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support Foswiki GWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
117 ⭐
7 ⭐
88 ⭐
Common Features Foswiki GWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Foswiki GWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
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
2
German, English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links Foswiki GWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Foswiki GWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
All
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability Foswiki GWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Statistics Foswiki GWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Output Foswiki GWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
No
No
Media and Files Foswiki GWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Foswiki GWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
No
No
Syntax Examples Foswiki GWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
External Link
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.com]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
*bold*
*Bold Format*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italic_
_Italic format_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
+Unterlined+
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{Monospace}}
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
-StrikeThrough-
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript~
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
no example known
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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