Foswiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. TWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Wicked

General Features Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Version
2.1.11
2.11.0
1.45.3
2.3.13
TWiki-6.1.0
6.2.1
2.0.8
Last Release Date
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-06-03 (6 days ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-04-25 (1 month ago)
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Alex Schroeder
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
WackoWiki Team
The Horde Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
Perl
Java
PHP
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
free
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
family people, hackers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
OS Independent
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Any with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
Writable data directory
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Datastorage Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Optional
No
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
None
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
None (use your web server instead)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
25 different backends
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
118 ⭐
116 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
54 ⭐
1 ⭐
Common Features Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
140
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
34
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Patch
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Links Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Plugin
All
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
Perl
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
No
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Output Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
No
Media and Files Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
No
Extras Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
No
Syntax Examples Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
External Link
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.org The title]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
Bold Format
*bold*
__bold__
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
''italics''
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
@@+++ underline @@
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
@@--- strikethrough @@
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
no example known
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** two
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
; term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
Depending on plugins:
----
---
----
----
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