Foswiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. TWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Version
2.1.11
2.11.0
1.32.2
1.5.1
TWiki-6.1.0
6.2.1
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)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-03 (29 days 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)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (29 days ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
PukiWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Perl
Java
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
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
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
OS Independent
Root Access
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
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
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.
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
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)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
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
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
118 ⭐
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
55 ⭐
Common Features Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
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
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
Optional
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Links Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Optional
No
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Output Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
No
Contents
Contents
Extras Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki
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]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
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
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
*bold*
__bold__
'''bold'''
''bold''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
''italics''
''italic''
'''italic'''
_italic_
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
%%%underlined%%%
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
N/A
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
%%strikethrough%%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
N/A
<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]]
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
| 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
N/A
<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
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
; term : definition
:term|definition
$ Term: Definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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