| General Features | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PukiWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.1.11
|
1.32.2
|
2.5.8
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1.5.1
|
| Last Release Date |
2026-03-15 (17 days ago)
|
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
|
2026-03-09 (23 days ago)
|
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-03-15 (17 days ago)
|
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
|
2026-03-09 (23 days ago)
|
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
|
| Author |
Foswiki Community
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
PukiWiki Development Team
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPL
|
GPL2+
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GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
|
| Programming Language |
Perl
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
Files
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
All
|
One theme, one PukiWiki
|
| System Requirements | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PukiWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
OS independent
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
Any with PHP support
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
none
|
none
|
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
|
| Datastorage | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PukiWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Other |
caching of content into database using plugins
|
No
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PukiWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Yes
|
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
|
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PukiWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
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
|
| Common Features | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PukiWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Number
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
To current
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PukiWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| 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 |
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Links | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PukiWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PukiWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Some
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
Optional
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PukiWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PukiWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Output | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PukiWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PukiWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
| Extras | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PukiWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Foswiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PukiWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
PageNameAsWikiName [[PageName]] [[link text>PageName]] |
| External Link |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
http://.... [[link text>http://....]] [[interwiki:keyphrase]] [[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]] |
| Headlines |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
! Level 1 !!#anchor Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
* Level 1 ** Level 2 *** Level 3 |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
''bold'' |
| Italics Format |
_italic_ |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
'''italic''' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
{+underlined+} |
%%%underlined%%% |
| Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
@@monospace@@ |
N/A |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
{-strikethrough-} |
%%strikethrough%% |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
N/A |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
N/A |
| Images |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
#ref(pagename/filename[,option]) &ref(pagename/filename[,option]); &ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]); http://foo.bar/foo.jpg |
| Aligning Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
<center>Centered</center> |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
CENTER:center RIGHT:right LEFT:left |
| Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
: indented line |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
N/A |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
- Item 1 -- Item 1.1 - Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
+ Item 1 ++ Item 1.1 + Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
$ Term: Definition |
; term : definition |
: term : definition |
:term|definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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---- |
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