Foswiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. TWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features Foswiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
Version
2.1.11
1.45.3
2.3.13
TWiki-6.1.0
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 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)
2019-07-19 (6 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
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
free
N/A
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
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements Foswiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
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
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
none
Writable data directory
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Foswiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
No
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki 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)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support Foswiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
118 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
54 ⭐
Common Features Foswiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki 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 TWiki 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
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
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
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
Optional
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links Foswiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki 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
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Foswiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Plugin
All
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
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
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
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Optional
Perl
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Foswiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics Foswiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Output Foswiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
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
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files Foswiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras Foswiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples Foswiki MediaWiki Oddmuse TWiki 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 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://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://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
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
---+ 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*
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</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>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</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
![text](URL)
%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
<center>Centered</center>
no example known
| 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>
: indented line
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** two
* 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 1.2
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
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: 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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