| General Features | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Wicked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.1.11
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1.45.3
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phpwiki-1.3.14
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2.0.8
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| Last Release Date |
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
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2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
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2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
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2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
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2026-06-03 (6 days ago)
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2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
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2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
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| Author |
Foswiki Community
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
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The Horde Project
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL
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GPL
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GPL
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GPL 2
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| Programming Language |
Perl
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PHP
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PHP
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PHP
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| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
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Database
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Database, Files, RCS
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Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
$0
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0
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
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End Users/Desktop, Education
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Any
|
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| System Requirements | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Wicked |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Any
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| Root Access |
No
|
No
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No
|
No
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| Webserver |
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
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Any with PHP support
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
Any
|
| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
none
|
various opt. helpers
|
Text_Wiki from PEAR
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| Datastorage | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Wicked |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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| RCS |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
caching of content into database using plugins
|
No
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gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
|
None
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Wicked |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| ACL |
Yes
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Yes
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db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
|
25 different backends
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Delayed Indexing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Development/Support | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Wicked |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
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No
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No
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
#phpwiki
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|||
| Stars on GitHub |
118 ⭐
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N/A
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N/A
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1 ⭐
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| Common Features | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Wicked |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Wicked |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
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 |
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional |
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
None
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Links | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Wicked |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Wicked |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Some
|
Some
|
None
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
Optional
|
plugins, templates, PHP
|
No
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Usability | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Wicked |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Wicked |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Output | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Wicked |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Media and Files | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Wicked |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Keywords
|
No
|
No
|
| Extras | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Wicked |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | Wicked |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
WikiWord or [somelink] [ desc | pagename ] |
[a Link] [namespace:link] [link With a Title] |
| External Link |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://someserver/someurl [ desc | exturl ] |
[http://example.com] [http://example.com With a Title] |
| Headlines |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
+ Level 1 Heading ++ Level 2 Heading +++ Level 3 Heading ++++ Level 4 Heading +++++ Level 5 Heading ++++++ Level 6 Heading |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
*bold* or <strong>bold</strong> |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
_italic_ |
''italic'' |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
@@+++ underline @@ |
| Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
<tt>monospace</tt> <code>code</code> <pre>preformatted</pre> <verbatim> unparsed text</verbatim> |
{{monospace}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<strike>striked through</strike> |
@@--- strikethrough @@ |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>above</sup> |
|
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>below</sub> |
|
| Images |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
[ 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 |
local.jpg http://foo.bar/baz.jpg [http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text] |
| Aligning Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
<center>Centered</center> |
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?> or <div align="right"> right </div> |
|
| Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
: indented line |
;: left indent ;;: more left indent or paragraph and another level |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* list or - list |
* Bullet one * Sub-bullet |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# list |
# Numero uno # Number two # Sub-item |
| Definition Lists |
$ Term: Definition |
; term : definition |
Term:<def> def |
: Item 1 : Something : Item 2 : Something else |
| Horizontal Rule |
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