| General Features | Foswiki | KeheiWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.1.11
|
Pleiades-M45
|
1.32.2
|
1.5.1
|
TWiki-6.1.0
|
6.2.1
|
| Last Release Date |
2026-03-15 (17 days ago)
|
2005-03-22 (21 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)
|
2009-12-23 (16 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
|
team
|
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
|
LGPL
|
GPL
|
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
|
GPL
|
BSD
|
| Programming Language |
Perl
|
Perl
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
Perl, JavaScript
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Files, RCS
|
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
|
corporate and special interest groups
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
One theme, one PukiWiki
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
| System Requirements | Foswiki | KeheiWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
Unix/Linux
|
*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
|
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
|
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
|
perl 4 or newer
|
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 | KeheiWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
caching of content into database using plugins
|
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
|
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 | KeheiWiki | 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
|
Apache
|
Yes
|
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Foswiki | KeheiWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||||
| Mailing List | ||||||
| Support Forum | ||||||
| Chat Channel |
#pukiwiki
|
|||||
| Stars on GitHub |
118 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
55 ⭐
|
| Common Features | Foswiki | KeheiWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Optional
|
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
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Foswiki | KeheiWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
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 |
1
English |
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
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
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
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | Foswiki | KeheiWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
No
|
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
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Foswiki | KeheiWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
All
|
Some
|
Plugin
|
All
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
|
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
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Foswiki | KeheiWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Foswiki | KeheiWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Output | Foswiki | KeheiWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| Media and Files | Foswiki | KeheiWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
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
|
Keywords
|
Keywords
|
No
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
| Extras | Foswiki | KeheiWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
No
|
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 | KeheiWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
%topic% ( '%' configurable ) or <link topic>text</link> or use HTML in rich text editor |
[[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://gmail.com/ or <extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern> or use HTML in rich text editor |
[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 |
text ---- or insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
==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* |
_ text _ or insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
'''bold''' |
''bold'' |
*bold* |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
_italic_ |
* text * or insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
''italic'' |
'''italic''' |
_italic_ |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
<u>underlined</u> |
%%%underlined%%% |
<u>underline</u> |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
<wiki code> stuff </wiki code> |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
N/A |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
%%strikethrough%% |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
--strikethrough-- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
N/A |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
N/A |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
[[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 |
<p align=right> stuff or insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
<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> |
<ul> stuff </ul> or insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
: indented line |
N/A |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
one two |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* text or <!> text or insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
* 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 |
digits. stuff or insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
# 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 or insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
; 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 |
--- |
can use plain < HR > tag or via WYSIWYG editor |
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