Foswiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki
Version
2.1.11
2.11.0
1.32.2
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2026-03-15 (17 days ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-15 (17 days ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
Perl
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS independent
Root Access
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
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Optional
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Optional
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Optional
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Development/Support Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
118 ⭐
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
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
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Links Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Optional
No
Patch
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
No
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Statistics Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Optional
No
Output Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
No
Extras Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
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://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
*bold*
__bold__
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
_italic_
''italics''
''italic''
'''italic'''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
N/A
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
N/A
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
N/A
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]]
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
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
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
; term : definition
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
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