| General Features | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki | WackoWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.1.11
|
1.45.3
|
2.3.13
|
phpwiki-1.3.14
|
6.2.1
|
| Last Release Date |
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
|
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
|
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
|
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
|
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
|
2026-06-03 (6 days ago)
|
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
|
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
|
2026-04-25 (1 month ago)
|
| Author |
Foswiki Community
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Alex Schroeder
|
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
|
WackoWiki Team
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
BSD
|
| Programming Language |
Perl
|
PHP
|
Perl
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
Files
|
Database, Files, RCS
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$0
|
0
|
free
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
family people, hackers
|
Any
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
| System Requirements | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki | WackoWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Anything supported by Perl
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
OS Independent
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
Any with PHP support
|
Anything supporting CGI scripts
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
none
|
Writable data directory
|
various opt. helpers
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
| Datastorage | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki | WackoWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
caching of content into database using plugins
|
No
|
No
|
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
|
MariaDB
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki | WackoWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Yes
|
None (use your web server instead)
|
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
|
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki | WackoWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel |
#phpwiki
|
||||
| Stars on GitHub |
118 ⭐
|
N/A
|
88 ⭐
|
N/A
|
54 ⭐
|
| Common Features | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki | WackoWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Age
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki | WackoWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
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 |
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 |
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 |
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
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Links | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki | WackoWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki | WackoWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Some
|
Plugin
|
Some
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
Optional
|
Perl
|
plugins, templates, PHP
|
actions (PHP)
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki | WackoWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki | WackoWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Output | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki | WackoWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| Media and Files | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki | WackoWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
Contents
|
| Extras | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki | WackoWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| Syntax Examples | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki | WackoWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
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 ] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
| External Link |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
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 ] |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
| Headlines |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
Depending on plugins: ## two ### three == two == === three == section ======= subsection ---------- |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
== 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** |
| Italics Format |
_italic_ |
''italic'' |
Depending on plugins: *italic* /italic/ //italic// ''italic'' |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
Depending on plugins: _underline_ __underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
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> |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
via bbCode plugin: [s]strike through[/s] |
<strike>striked through</strike> |
--strikethrough-- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
via bbCode plugin: [sup]superscript[/sup] |
<sup>above</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
via bbCode plugin: [sub]subscript[/sub] |
<sub>below</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
http://example.com/pic.jpg Depending on plugins: [[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants  |
[ 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 |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
| Aligning Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
<center>Centered</center> |
no example known |
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?> or <div align="right"> right </div> |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
| Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
: indented line |
Depending on plugins: > text [quote] text [/quote] : one :: two |
;: left indent ;;: more left indent or paragraph and another level |
one two |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* one ** two |
* list or - list |
*one **One-two *two *three |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
Depending on plugins: 1. one 2. two # one ## two |
# list |
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 |
{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: ---- |
---- |
---- |
| remove Foswiki | remove MediaWiki | remove Oddmuse | remove PhpWiki | remove WackoWiki |