| General Features | Foswiki | JSPWiki | Zim |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.1.9
|
2.11.0
|
0.56
|
| Last Release Date |
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
|
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
|
2012-04-02 (13 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
|
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
|
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
|
| Author |
Foswiki Community
|
Apache Software Foundation
|
Jaap Karssenberg
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
Apache License 2.0
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
Perl
|
Java
|
Python
|
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Database, Files
|
Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
all
|
Private users, small teams
|
| System Requirements | Foswiki | JSPWiki | Zim |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
|
Linux, Windows, OSX
|
| Root Access |
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
|
None
|
| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
|
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
|
| Datastorage | Foswiki | JSPWiki | Zim |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
caching of content into database using plugins
|
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
|
Text Files with index in SQLite
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Foswiki | JSPWiki | Zim |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
|
File permissions
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Foswiki | JSPWiki | Zim |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel |
Freenode: #jspwiki
|
||
| Stars on GitHub |
117 ⭐
|
110 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | Foswiki | JSPWiki | Zim |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Foswiki | JSPWiki | Zim |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
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 |
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Flat
|
No
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Links | Foswiki | JSPWiki | Zim |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | Foswiki | JSPWiki | Zim |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Optional
|
None
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
none
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
|
None
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Usability | Foswiki | JSPWiki | Zim |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Statistics | Foswiki | JSPWiki | Zim |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Output | Foswiki | JSPWiki | Zim |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Foswiki | JSPWiki | Zim |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Contents
|
No
|
| Extras | Foswiki | JSPWiki | Zim |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Foswiki | JSPWiki | Zim |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[link] [text|link] [text|wiki:link] |
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage |
| External Link |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
[http://www.example.com/] [example|http://www.example.com/] [text|wiki:link] |
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org ftp://somehost/share \\host\share\.. |
| Headlines |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
=== Heading === |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
__bold__ |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
_italic_ |
''italics'' |
//italic// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %% |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
{{monospace}} |
``monospace`` |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %% |
~~strike~~ |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %% |
^{sup} |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %% |
_{sub} |
| 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.png}} |
| Aligning Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
%%(text-align: right) text %% |
not implemented |
| Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %% %%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %% |
indent with tabs |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* List item * sub items * with indent |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. List item a. with sub items b. ... |
| Definition Lists |
$ Term: Definition |
;term:definition |
not implemented |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
---- |
not implemented |
| remove Foswiki | remove JSPWiki | remove Zim |