Foswiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PhpWiki vs. TWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features Foswiki JSPWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Version
2.1.11
2.11.0
2.3.13
phpwiki-1.3.14
TWiki-6.1.0
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-04-25 (1 month ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
Apache Software Foundation
Alex Schroeder
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
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
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Perl
Java
Perl
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
free
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
family people, hackers
Any
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements Foswiki JSPWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Anything supported by Perl
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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
Anything supporting CGI scripts
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
Writable data directory
various opt. helpers
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Foswiki JSPWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki JSPWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki 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
None (use your web server instead)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support Foswiki JSPWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
118 ⭐
116 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
54 ⭐
Common Features Foswiki JSPWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Foswiki JSPWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Links Foswiki JSPWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Foswiki JSPWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Plugin
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Perl
plugins, templates, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Foswiki JSPWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Foswiki JSPWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output Foswiki JSPWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files Foswiki JSPWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
No
Contents
Contents
Extras Foswiki JSPWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples Foswiki JSPWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
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 or [somelink]
[ desc | 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.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
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
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
---+ 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__
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
''italics''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italic_
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
__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>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>striked through</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>below</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'}]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
%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 %%
no example known
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

| 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 %%
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* list
or
- list
* 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
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# list
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
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Term:<def>
def
$ Term: Definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
---
----
Depending on plugins:
----
----
---
----
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